Word: freedman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past, The Colonial Theatre's production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman will soon attempt to wobble its way onto Broadway. The play's only source of survival is its nostalgic value; its central themes have ceased to resonate in the skeptical American consciousness, and Gerald Freedman's period-piece direction doesn't add anything to the play's relevance...
...Freedman's direction does not remedy the play's flaws in any way. It too is stuck in its nostalgia, as it makes no attempt to bridge the audience's distance from the play...
Like the production's sensibility, Freedman's staging and Chris Barrecca's sets are also depressingly stodgy. There are many awkward scene changes. A clandestine affair in a hotel room is carried out without the benefit of a bed. Boundaries between spaces become unnecessarily confused. No doubt the creative team justifies the last critique as a reflection of Willy's fluid movement from reality to dream, but the result is distracting and confusing...
...measuring with unprecedented precision the distance to the distant galaxy M100 (56 million light-years), a team of researchers led by Wendy Freedman of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, provided the most accurate yardstick ever for gauging the expansion rate, and thus the age, of the universe. Their illogical preliminary answer: the cosmos is between 8 billion and 12 billion years old--or about 2 billion years younger than the oldest known stars. While Freedman and others refine their measurements, cosmologists are scrambling to patch up their theories. To save the idea of the Big Bang, the postulated explosive...
Dartmouth's president James O. Freedman came in a close second in the Ivy League, receiving $307,725, with Princeton's president Harold Shapiro just behind...