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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SPINNING INTO BUTTER A small Vermont college is the setting for this edgy exploration of racism and political correctness, touched off by some anonymous hate letters. Rebecca Gilman's searching play, given a fine staging at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, shows a keen eye for the culture of academic life but resists the urge to lecture...
...their patients. All women, beginning at 19, for example, should be asked if they have any bladder- or bowel-control problems. While these problems are not very common in younger women, the question is easy enough to ask, and if there is a problem, early intervention could make life a lot more comfortable...
...week in the Journal of the American Medical Association brings into question the use of mammography in women after age 69. Researchers studied 10,000 women to try to determine whether annual mammograms provided enough benefit to warrant their use. The results showed, rather dramatically, that the gains in life expectancy for these elderly women were minimal. With some variation depending on the sample, only 1 death per 10,000 women is likely to be avoided...
...FASTER by James Gleick. Those who wonder why they never seem to have the leisure to sit back and smell the roses will find plenty of reasons in this lively, irreverent primer on contemporary life. Gleick examines how we became infected with "hurry sickness" and points out that such innovations as cell phones, microwave ovens and the Internet only exacerbate the symptoms. Once a task has been speeded up, going back is hard to do. Try dialing a phone number...
...CONTACT How to get the ailing Broadway musical off life support? Director Susan Stroman and writer John Weidman have an answer: Cut out the singing. Their exhilarating show is composed of three heartfelt love stories told in dance and dialogue accompanied mostly by a wildly diverse jukebox of pop records and enlivened by the performances of Deborah Yates and Karen Ziemba...