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Fittingly, in a season when the Great White Way once again has an inner glow, this most Broadwayesque of musicals leads the way. It has been a season of powerhouse new plays by August Wilson, Herb Gardner, Neil Simon, Brian Friel and Richard Nelson. It has been a season of movie- and TV-star glitter -- Jessica Lange, Alec Baldwin and Amy Madigan in A Streetcar Named Desire; Glenn Close, Gene Hackman and Richard Dreyfuss in Ariel Dorfman's politically inflamed Death and the Maiden; fast-rising Larry Fishburne, direct from the angry film Boyz N the Hood to Wilson...
After Britain's National Theater triumphed in the early '80s with a more faithful version emphasizing neon glow and urban grit, interest surged in another Broadway revival, this time by the book. A discreet bidding war ensued for the approval of Loesser's widow, actress Jo Sullivan, who holds key copyrights and has firm opinions about every detail of staging, from the flutter of a hand to the color of a necktie. The winner: a partnership, calling itself the Dodgers, that had produced noteworthy new musicals (Big River, The Secret Garden) but never a revival...
That is the first thing that the exhibition "Rembrandt: The Master & His Workshop: Paintings," now in its closing week at London's National Gallery, makes clear. Rembrandt was not a "literary" painter, as his intense devotion to the muck and glow and substance of paint attests. But he was an incomparably theatrical one. In his work, the idea of a figure painting as tableau is exchanged for that of outright drama: deep, dark backgrounds and narrative light picking out the hierarchy of character; turbulent crowd scenes; an eye for all classes, from cobblers to kings; a vast range of expression...
...Even amid the glow of his primary victories last week, Clinton rather plaintively acknowledged that he had to do a better job of convincing voters he is an honest man. Some well-wishers go further. "Clinton is going to have to find some forum in which he confronts these character questions directly," says former Democratic National Chairman John White. He has in mind something like John F. Kennedy's televised confrontation with Protestant ministers in Houston that defused concerns about his Roman Catholicism -- and its supposed influence on his policies -- early in the 1960 campaign. Natalie Davis, a political-science...
EDUCATION. By now it has become a much more than twice-told tale, but familiarity should not dull the glow of Clinton's greatest accomplishment. In 1978 one study found Arkansas' schools to be the worst in the nation, bar none. Realizing that Arkansas could never break out of its cycle of poverty and backwardness without a drastic improvement in schooling, the Governor appointed his wife Hillary to head a panel that would recommend reforms, and this was one task force that got results. Acting on its advice, Clinton set tough standards, which every school had to meet, instituted competency...