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...cast is admirable, notably Faith Prince as the abandoned wife, Michael Rupert as her ex-husband, Stephen Bogardus as the man he left her for, and Price as the psychiatrist. The fulcrum of the ensemble is the child of the broken marriage, on the eve of his Bar Mitzvah, played with just the right blend of anxiety and healing gumption by Danny Gerard, 13. Each actor gets at least one beautiful, revealing song, and all of them make William Finn's music haunting. This individual excellence adds up to general excellence: for craft and for heart, Falsettoland is the first...
...life and death. Price easily captures the pleasures of that peculiar American institution called camp and the problems of "that painful fulcrum between frank childhood and the musky outskirts of puberty." Boatner's boys can "smuggle farts like anarchist bombs into the highest and most sacred scenes of camp life," wet the bed one minute and display extraordinary bravery the next, be ruled by their burgeoning sexuality to the point of visiting the barn animals but soar to great spirituality when one of the last members of the camp's old Indian tribe imparts his wisdom...
...decide what risks to take," Delaney said, adding, "we should move the fulcrum to acceptance of risk on the patient's part...
Education is the fulcrum of Jesse Jackson's domestic vision. Jackson believes that if the United States takes care of its children, then its children will take care of it. Jackson's framing of the issue differs starkly from his rivals, who see education an economic issue, a necessity if we are to compete in the world. For Jackson, education is about equity, the opportunity for all of America's young to exercise their minds...
...story bristles with shrewd ideas on topics as varied as how Shakespeare's The Tempest ought to be played (an amateur production is the fulcrum of the plot) to the role of egalitarian wartime food rationing in dismantling the old British class structure. The budding artist coolly looks on everything -- from his mother's death during World War II bombing to his own accidental hastening of an aged relative's demise -- as mere material. His outlook could be that of a genius or a schizophrenic or a psychopath. The confluence among those personalities is precisely Dickinson's point and confers...