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Last year Jane Martin (a pen name shielding a woman who refuses to reveal her identity) made her unforgettable debut as a monologuist with Twirlers, in which the heroine likens champion baton wielding to a transcendent experience ("Twirling is the throwing of yourself up to God"). Lisa Goodman repeats her...
Orthodox theology stresses martyrdom as a sign of holiness in a potential saint. Determination of sainthood is a much less formal matter than in the Roman Catholic Church, where a lengthy, legalistic procedure emphasizes an exemplary moral life and the performance of miracles after death. An Orthodox candidate need only...
An instant before it happened, one camera's eye caught a tableau that might serve as the late 20th century's most succinct text on the metaphysics of terrorism. There, on a mellow May afternoon at St. Peter's Square, beneath the encircling Bernini columns, the most...
Still, changes in the middle section of the play, which seems to be the section most tampered with by others than Marlowe, make little sense and confuse the audience. The main character himself vacillates between the tragic Faustus, oscillating between arrogance and remorse, and the cheerful prankster who flies to...
NOW LEAVE THE HALLS of power, and follow through the streets, Join us in a Yuletide round and see the souls we meet. Down the block there's Daniel Steiner--Of prudent lawyers there could be no finer. Across the Yard, Our Dean, Hank Rosovsky, Stares at the emptying coffers...