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...lady with the arch British accent, would cart Taster's Choice to Paris, the City of Cafes, or that Harry's response to his wife's persistent nattering would be a chipper "Health-care reform again, huh?" If the pair of them had been members of the Screen Actors Guild when F.D.R. was President, there might be no Social Security...
Worcester Art Museum. 55 Salisbury St., Worcester. (508) 799-4406. "Judith Leyster: A Dutch Master and Her World," through Dec. 5. Leyster was the only female member of the painter's guild to have had a workshop and the only woman painter active in the art market in 17th-century Holland...
Success is the best revenge. McNally, who has achieved much, helps others as vice president of the Dramatists Guild; this fall he launches a playwriting department at the Juilliard School. For McNally, success means finding a unique voice that people have to hear. In Ganesh his subject is the universal caste system, the need to hate those of another shade or sexuality. If his characters judge too quickly or hold a grudge too long, it is because they are victims as well. Their hearts are bruised; India will open them to life...
...fact that Metzenbaum, a Democrat, has voiced some of the most serious and thoroughly considered reservations about Ginsburg is further proof of his integrity. A member of the liberal National Lawyers' Guild, he spoke of his concern for Ginsburg's "preference for measured or incremental movement of the law" and her "concept of gradualism in applying the Constitution's provisions." While casting Ginsburg's nomination in a positive light overall, Metzenbaum made plain his wariness of a Justice apt to compromise with conservative bench-warmers like Antonin Scalia, Thomas, and William Rehnquist...
Bumblebee, who plays some songs by Hank Williams Jr., said he was arrested once in the 1960's for playing music. Only as a result of a "hard-fought battle" by the Street Musicians Guild were musicians allowed to play at the T-stops...