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Among frights this Halloweekend it was debatable which proved scariest: Sarah Palin (Windsor G. Hanger ’10) fraternizing with constituents at the Owl Saturday night, or Dr. Frank-N-Furter (James P. Fitzpatrick ’12) roaming the Yard on Friday...
...good example of the pleasures of the star revival is the new production of A Man for All Seasons, with Frank Langella doing the honors as Sir Thomas More, the chancellor to King Henry VIII who went to death rather than betray his conscience by blessing the king's divorce and his break with the Church of Rome. Langella's interpretation has drawn some criticism, suprisingly, for being too saintly and hammy - surprising because what stood out for me in Langella's performance was how bracingly human it is. As the rebellious counselor, Langella is a man of stoic determination...
...Frank Bruconi, chief economist in the New York City comptroller's office, estimates that lower Wall Street pay and payrolls will reduce the city's income tax revenue by $368 million alone. Then there's the ripple effect. Many other types of companies throughout the city, from law firms and accountants to corporate-car services and dry cleaners, rely on Wall Street companies and their employees for business. Bruconi says the general rule is that one job cut on Wall Street usually results in a reduction of a job and a half elsewhere in the N.Y.C. economy. All told, local...
...find in a cinder block. And then there were Eggleston's pictures of places where no one had ever bothered to point a camera before, like the green tiled interior of an empty shower stall or the strangely mesmerizing blackness of an open kitchen oven. In 1961 photographer Robert Frank said, "You can photograph anything now." But it took Eggleston to prove...
...Cutting arts funding is a symbolic measure more than it is a practical one. As Frank Rich ’71 said in The New York Times, “Bashing the NEA, like boosting school prayer, is a high-profile, low-cost way for the Gingrich G.O.P. to distract the faithful while avoiding the hard choices about cutting multibillion-dollar entitlements that might really downsize the budget.” The NEA got cut off at the knees because it was easier—and much more popular—for House Speaker Newt Gingrich to blame Robert Mapplethorpe...