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...tale, which has been touring the country (and having its songs recorded) for a couple of years. But head of the class among the new arrivals is The Life, a dark, brashly entertaining musical about the seedy denizens of Times Square circa 1980, from composer Cy Coleman and lyricist Ira Gasman. It is, moreover, one new musical that really shows the impact of Rent. The Life has had its sights set on Broadway for years, but might never have arrived if Rent had not made gritty New York street life safe for middlebrow theatergoers...
...Catholic residents of Lower Ormeau Road. At the same time, British Prime Minister John Major, campaigning for re-election at a high school near London, said he believed the nationalist Irish Republican Army was preparing to resume the cease-fire it abandoned a year ago. However, Major predicted the IRA announcement would come after the May 1 national British elections, which Major so far looks likely to lose. It will probably fall to a Labor government to continue the all-party peace talks and to decide whether to extend an invitation to Sinn Fein, the political party aligned with...
...members of the IRA know that the [Irish] Diaspora is tired of the use of violence to achieve ends in Ireland?" he said...
Atwood criticized recent cease-fire violations by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). "Nobody in Ireland believes anymore in the advantages of war," he said. He added that the IRA is "denying the people's right to self-determination...
...idea of a dictator's being genetically duplicated is not new--not in pop culture, anyhow. In Ira Levin's 1976 book The Boys from Brazil a zealous ex-Nazi bred a generation of literal Hitler Youth--boys cloned from cells left behind by the Fuhrer. Woody Allen dealt with a similar premise a lot more playfully in his 1973 film Sleeper, in which a futuristic tyrant is killed by a bomb blast, leaving nothing behind but his nose--a nose that his followers hope to clone into a new leader. Even as the fiction of one decade becomes...