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The Grey Gardens musical opens with this announcement, news-clipping style: "In a statement released today, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis confirmed that her 80-year-old aunt, Mrs. Edith Bouvier Beale, and her adult daughter Edie are living in squalid conditions in an East Hampton estate known as Grey Gardens. The...
DIED. Lee Gordon, 84, the first U.S. prisoner of war to escape a German camp during World War II; in Menlo Park, Calif. In October 1943, after two failed attempts to flee Stalag VIIA, he used a fake ID tag to enter an outdoor work area, sneaked past a distracted...
A former president of New Delhi's Foreign Correspondents' Club liked to startle newly arrived American and British journalists by telling them to begin work on their big India book at once. If they protested that they had just landed and would need at least a year to write a...
Luce is strongest on economics, but he's also a savvy observer of the social and political environments that alternately nurture and throttle India's growth. With equal aplomb, he tackles topics such as the surging political power of India's lower castes, the rise and (apparent) decline of Hindu...
Physics concentrators, forgive me if I mangle this explanation: “rabbit holes,” as postulated by physicists, are short-cuts through the fabric of space-time that take us to other versions of this universe. At the denouement of David Lindsay-Abaire’s play...