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...Lest you think Calkins is a complete nerd, he's anything but. He fully realizes that Gibson, with his perky antenna-like tail and endearingly clunky legs, can be a chick magnet. If that doesn't impress, Calkins will sweep back his bleach-blond hair and rattle off the weekend's coolest parties in northern California. Still, Calkins isn't just content teaching his techno-pooch frat-boy tricks like kicking a ball or rolling over. He's into exploring Gibson's inner qualities: Calkins has backward-engineered his pet, methodically investigating his dog's software to see exactly what...
...picture” is as powerful as it can be. Furthermore, not only is Sondheim’s music notoriously difficult for performers to master, but the audience may come in with pre-formed expectations from the widely distributed video of the original Broadway production. Innovation, then, is essential, lest the production sink into the pit of slavish imitation. The Loeb Mainstage is a cavernous space that has swallowed up many a smaller production and, like all student shows in the venue, Into the Woods must attempt to fill it with a budget of only five thousand dollars, a figure...
...bear market"?) - which need round-the-clock news marathons to spike ratings and readership. But ironically, the media are so far also showing a second, contradictory tendency that works against this interest: their tendency to parrot the language of the administration in power, especially when reporting on international affairs. Lest they appear biased or unpatriotic during wartime, for instance, reporters surrender their understanding of English and let "bombing victims" become "collateral damage"; in the Gulf War, our supposedly combative media meekly submitted their reports for the Pentagon's creative copyediting...
...family isn't such a bargain if it pays $7,000 in property taxes and sends its kids to school at a cost of $8,000 each. Some communities in New Jersey, New York and other states are considering new property-tax breaks to discourage seniors from moving out--lest they be replaced by families with school-age kids...
...Lest she laugh in my face, I should tell her that there are other kinds of news I do understand. The news of the heart's surprises, for example. I should tell her about my brother, her granduncle, who last month upped and got married for the first time to a schoolteacher from Beijing. He spent an entire life alone, and then appears the thoroughly lovely Chao Mei, and presto change-o, a heart beats. I should tell Jessica about that...