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Director Laith Zawawi scraps the traditional Greek chorus and employs in its place the streamlined commentary of the Dark and Light Spirits. Henry as the Light Spirit and a Darth Vaderesque Christina Kiely as her darker counter-part are permanent fixtures to the play. When they don't have any lines they simply stand there spreading their good or bad karma. It's quite a New Age-like concept--one can almost feel all that cosmic energy being thrown about...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Diary of a Mad Housewife | 12/9/1988 | See Source »

...Vanderbilt and Beth Mowins and TheresaO'Connell of Lafayette, a 69-54 winner overIllinois-Chicago in the consolation game, roundout the All-Tournament team...Scholtens was theSoutheastern Conference 1988 Freshman of theYear...The Vanderbilt media guide lists theplayers' favorite late-night snacks. For therecord, Denton likes to eat Greek salad with lotsof feta cheese...The Crimson's next game isThursday at 7:30 p.m. at home against Hartford...

Author: By Christine Dimino, | Title: Vanderbilt Crushes W. Cagers | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

Stockholm is sunless for 17 hours a day in December, and London gets 15 days of rain. Greek villages hibernate for the winter, Loire valley inns close their shutters, and, but for the evergreens and skiers, the Black Forest is bare. Surely these are reasons enough for the traveler to stay away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Europe Is A Winter's Tale Forget June: seasoned travelers go off-season | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

...Nelligan, the character comes exuberantly alive. Vitality and beauty are common enough in star turns; so is warmth, although Nelligan, whose technical gifts are extraordinary, has never before shown it to this degree on the U.S. stage, and only once on film, in her 1985 performance as a heroic Greek mother in Eleni...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Glamour in A Housecoat SPOILS OF WAR | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

LAST January, a similar controversy brewed at CBS Sports when commentator "Jimmy the Greek" Snyder spoke to a reporter about Blacks in professional sports. During the interview Snyder said that many a slave owner used to "breed his big Black to his big woman so that they could have a big Black kid." Here was another case of a public figure making an offensive remark that contained some truth--truth that was forgotten in the angry responses that followed...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: Bearers of Bad News | 11/16/1988 | See Source »

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