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...religious themes for decades. Gospel, with its roots in the blues, was once considered too earthy to perform in church; the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar came out way back in 1970; and Christian diva Amy Grant has been racking up Grammys and gold records for years with her lite-FM pop. But younger Christian performers are now borrowing from a wider, more modern array of musical styles--such as alternative rock and gangsta rap--in an effort to create music that can appeal to a generation raised on Nirvana...
Instead, "Othello" features an eclectic gathering of horrible effects. Othello first enters from beneath an electronic Bud Lite sign. The sound, though well-prepared, goes sour when whimsical musical moments and a garish announcement of the Venetian victory accompanied by disco lay waste to Shakespeare's play. Two guards, listed as "Mechanicals" in the program, wear expressionless masks, and the Herald speaks his lines in a deliberate monotone. Iago's deception of Othello occurs before a projection of Magritte's painting, "The Wind and the Song," and, before the first intermission, an actor walks onto the stage with a sign...
Forbes' vision of America is a more radical one than his charmingly goofy smile might suggest. To Forbes, Newt Gingrich is not a revolutionary but an incrementalist, and the Republican budget is just Tax-and-Spend Lite. His flat tax is also an enormous tax cut that he concedes will raise $40 billion less in revenue than the tax system does now; the group Citizens for Tax Justice, a generally liberal think tank, estimates a 17% flat tax would produce a shortfall of $200 billion. And never mind turning matters back to the states: Forbes...
...vision of government and their faith in its power to do good. Instead of arguing against the elimination of government programs that they once touted as essential, the Democrats simply argue with the Republicans over the relative size of those cuts. The Democrats have turned themselves into a "Republican Lite" party. Do they offer us great taste--or are they just less filling...