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...Janet McTeer, the latest Brit sensation to make her Broadway debut, has the advantage of bringing along a play really worthy of her talents. Ibsen's A Doll's House might seem an obvious war-horse for an actress looking to make her mark. But McTeer turns Nora's famous feminist self-affirmation into more than just a political tract. This is a revelatory performance, the kind that takes a familiar play, gives it a hard shake and makes us experience it anew...
...agents in June. "The President should know," he insisted. That led to a highly unusual public statement by the FBI contradicting the President and insisting that the agents had never demanded that the aides keep their own superiors in the dark. By midweek the issue appeared settled. Attorney General Janet Reno said it had all been a misunderstanding between the briefers and the briefed over just how closely the information was to be held...
...easily. That's not writing from an outline as much as living in your character's skin." Clark explains that creating characters who live out one's fears, hopes and joys is in a way creating the truest kind of autobiography. Invoking the words of The New Yorker's Janet Malcomb, Clark said that "the only literature that is 100 percent true is fiction...
...they tried to explain that they were proud of what they had done, and now that they had been caught, promised never to do it again. It was as if they had come to believe the headlines that implied someone might soon be going to jail, that Attorney General Janet Reno had no choice but to appoint an independent counsel...
...after a week in which nearly everyone repented but no one confessed, things seemed to be returning to normal. A new independent counsel was, for the moment, a distant prospect. Janet Reno was content to let her own task force of 25 lawyers and FBI agents look into whether foreign money was funneled illegally into either party's coffers last year. "When the independent-counsel statute is triggered," Reno said once more, "I will take appropriate action." Even Kenneth Starr, the once and future Pepperdine law-school dean, was back in Little Rock, Arkansas, working an old angle: trying...