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...embodies our darkest heritage in the antiheroic biography Cobb. He hits a new peak in TWO ROOMS, a depiction of a Beirut hostage and his grieving wife that merges harrowing narrative with elegantly poetic, and redemptive, visual and verbal imagery. A brilliant, too-brief off-Broadway staging by James Houghton, starring Jeffrey Hayenga and the unforgettable Laura Esterman, has just closed. The play deserves further productions around the country...
...Houghton Libray's current exhibit, "About Faces: Historic and contemporary Issue in Type Design," suggests that such computer-driven democracy movement have already occurred outside the political sphere. If he cared about likely approve of the similar convulsions that technology has produced within the world of type design. The well chosen pieces in the exhibit convey the sense that the typographic snob-club that has determined letterom fashion since Gutenberg now teeters on the verge of collapse...
...never know how perot's "electronic town halls" would have changed politics, but the Houghton exhibit indicates that digital democracy has served typography well. Such exhibits as "About face" can ensure that consumers and designers use democracy's energies properly, constumers will learn that the history of type began long before Apple began bundling bitmaps of "Times," "Helvetica" and "Palatine" with Macintosh will be able contract the wild modern early periods with the stodgy lay in between...
...valve will be repaired on Saturday when Yard buildings such as Emerson Hall, Sever Hall, Widener Library and Houghton Library see less traffic, according to Bray-Stazinski...
MARTHA SPEAKS by Susan Meddaugh (Houghton Mifflin; $13.95). Martha, your average family pooch, eats the alphabet soup and starts speaking fluent English. Trouble is, she won't stop. Finally the family rises up and orders her to shut up. Which Martha does, until the day a burglar comes to call ... The whimsical author-illustrator gets an occasional case of the cutes. Usually, however, she is wise enough to let the tale...