Word: hares
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CHICAGO: Chicago commuters are facing up to forty minutes of added drive time between O'Hare Airport and downtown because of an unusual gawker's delay, reports TIME's Julie Grace. "Elston and Milwaukee Avenues have been dubbed 'Rodman reroutes' because of a giant billboard advertisement of Bulls player Dennis Rodman in a Bigsby & Kruthers business suit and tie which went up after Rodman was suspended for six games for head-butting a NBA referee. The suit is tailored to accentuate Rodman's tattoos in the most obvious way: the sleeves are cut off." Although all the attention...
...want this to come across as some hare-brained scheme. People often become so absorbed in what they're doing that they forget the expressive potential of clothing," Olch said. "You do get a kick out of buying a new shirt...
...THEATER THESE DAYS, HIGHmindedness is not a very seaworthy trait. Most of the English plays that have sailed across the Atlantic and landed on Broadway of late have been high-tech musicals or dramas ballasted by big-name movie stars. David Hare's Racing Demon--which has no major stars, focuses on two priests in the Church of England and traffics in both theological debate and sociological observation--is therefore an unlikely arrival...
Racing Demon, which premiered in London in 1990, is part of a Hare trilogy that includes Murmuring Judges, which scrutinizes England's legal system, and The Absence of War, examining its politics. If the entire venture has something of an old-fashioned feel--a kinship with those "condition of England" novels of Wells, Galsworthy, Forster--that's probably all right with Hare, 48. With these plays (and others, such as Plenty and Map of the World), he has embraced a theater of social and moral probing. By frequently setting one character to debating another (about the ordination of women, declining...
...full-bodied characters, and Racing Demon sometimes does feel overly abstracted. But Brian Murray does a fine job of linking head to body: he plays, movingly, a homosexual priest who flees the country rather than face public exposure. In the moments when Murray trembles over a hastily packed suitcase, Hare shows he can do more than write an intelligent and noble play; he can shake the soul...