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...characters too familiar, the stories too formulaic, the messages too spoon-fed. Donald Margulies' new Broadway offering, Time Stands Still, to take a typical example, won warm praise from most critics, but I found its alternately jokey and sanctimonious portrayal of a photojournalist and her war-correspondent boyfriend one giant media-friendly cliché. And I had to laugh at New York Times critic Ben Brantley's praise of Next Fall, Geoffrey Nauffts' new comedy-drama about a gay couple at odds over religion, as "that genuine rara avis, a smart, sensitive and utterly contemporary New York comedy...
...terms of F1 economics, however - and this is especially true for the newest hosts - it doesn't matter if none of F1's race promoters comes close to covering costs. The shortfall is increasingly paid for by governments who view television coverage as a giant TV commercial for their city or country. Singapore hosts a spectacular nighttime race on city streets beneath twinkling lights. In 2008, its first year, the race took in $51 million, but cost $100 million, according to Formula Money. That's O.K. with Singapore. The government kicked in $60 million, leaving the local promoter with...
...other times, Angelology finds an almost hallucinatory power. In a flashback, a 9-year-old Evangeline tails her mysterious father to a darkened warehouse in lower Manhattan. Inside, three cages hang from the ceiling. In each cage is a giant, resplendently winged angel. "One of them appeared to be nearly insane with rage," she recalls. "It clutched the bars and screamed obscenities at its captors standing below. The other two were listless, lying limp and sullen, as if drugged or beaten into submission...
...Crist has drawn accusations that he's more ambitious chameleon than judicious consensus builder. What's more, his massive state purchase of U.S. Sugar Corp. land to enhance Everglades restoration, touted last year as a landmark environmental triumph, is now under scrutiny as a sweeter deal for the sugar giant: the company was represented by a legal firm headed in part by Crist's former chief of staff, George LeMieux, whom Crist later tapped to fill the Senate seat the Governor is now seeking after Republican Mel Martinez stepped down last year. Crist got a boost last week when state...
...Broaching two sensitive issues in such a short time period would inevitably weaken ties, but other issues have contributed. After U.S. Internet giant Google threatened to pull out of China in January, citing Chinese censorship and sophisticated hacking attacks on its infrastructure, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cited China in a speech in support of online freedom. China and Google have held talks recently, and the Financial Times reported on Saturday that the company was "99.9 %" certain to close its google.cn site, which is aimed at Chinese users and censors search returns according to Chinese regulations...