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...plays have grown darker and more complex, Broadway has largely abandoned him. Although Communicating Doors, one of his lesser comedies, had a successful run off-Broadway a couple of seasons back and Comic Potential, his latest West End hit, will be produced this fall by the Manhattan Theatre Club, most of Ayckbourn's great comedies of the past couple of decades--Man of the Moment, Henceforward, The Revengers' Comedies, Wildest Dreams--have been performed only rarely in the U.S., and not at all in New York City...
...Highlight Reel:1. On walking through downtown Manhattan on 9/11 after years of reporting in Afghanistan: "Walking in, watching the flames shoot upward, the first thing I thought was that I was back in the Third World. My countrymen were going to think that this was the worst thing that had ever happened, the end of civilization. In the Third World, this sort of thing happened every day: earthquakes, famines, plagues ... All those street vendors who worked near the World Trade Center, from all those different countries, selling falafel and schwarma. When they heard the planes and watched the towers...
...have been more direct than others - and more misguided, since the president can't technically fire the SEC head - but McCain's sentiment was nothing new. For months, calls for the SEC to do something more in the financial markets has been heard all over, from Congress, a midtown Manhattan law firm, the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, cable TV business news and former SEC commissioners. But is all the criticism being hurled at Cox, a corporate lawyer who served in the Reagan White House and as a Congressman from Orange Co., Calif. for 17 years before being plucked...
...Android operating system - was the Google folks themselves. But about a half an hour into the event, and well into the question-and-answer session hosted by the phone's wireless carrier, T-Mobile, Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page suddenly rolled onstage wearing in-line skates, blaming Manhattan traffic for both their delayed arrival and their choice of transportation. Cameramen snapped to, reporters pounded furiously on their notebooks and the crowd buzzed...
...disturbing (and so it was), I nonetheless read your article on Hirst, since I'd had the misfortune some months back of seeing in the flesh one of his grotesque works (a slaughterhouse on display to the public, really) at the base of Lever House, on the streets of Manhattan. Like Hirst, I'm amused by the affluent morons who feel compelled to throw their money at him for the monstrosities that his production lines seemingly roll out in copious quantities. Hirst himself appears to be a thoroughly tortured individual. He deserves that state, for the posthumous indignity to which...