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As the show opens, a fortress-like curtain wall leans dramatically backward to form a sharply raked stage, bodies clinging to it as to the sides of a sinking ship. When Pontius Pilate appears, it is through a doorway modeled after the head of Caesar. As it telescopes open, bearing...
He leans forward a little as he shares other memories. "My Mother had two pictures on the wall facing her bed. One was a beautiful steel engraving of Robert E. Lee, which I still have, and the other was a photograph of her father. To her, they were just alike...
The New York Times has always been more of a national than a metropolitan newspaper; even its local coverage leans heavily on city politics and gives short shrift to human-interest stories. Last year, in an attempt to remedy the situation, Metropolitan Editor Arthur Gelb assigned Staff Reporter Joseph Lelyveld...
Nixon leans heavily on both men, but there is no doubt about whom he listens to most often. Shultz has become almost an Assistant President. He is in Nixon's office nearly every day, and his influence runs to matters beyond economics; for example, he has been active in racial...
By noon, she is safely out of the Common and standing on the traffic island waiting to cross into the Yard. She sees a bunch of little kids pedaling by on their bikes. She musters a weary smile. Children, she thinks, innocents, our only hope. And just then, one of...