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...Martha Stewart or Carmen Elektra? Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan? Fleetwood Mac or Eminem? MAXIM or Esquire? Skis or snowboards? GAP or French Connection? 'Friends' or 'Sex and the City'? Espresso or latte? Martini or Martinellis...
...celebration of occasions. To be surprised by anything at all these days is merely to indicate how out of it one is. My father's generation seemed to be surprised by everything--a TV set, automatic shift, snow--and to be enchanted by the smallest event. "A martini!" my father would say, as if he had not mixed it himself. "Pie a la mode!"--with a lusty accent on "mode," as if he were recalling a village in France and not a scoop of ice cream...
...says. "Its formalism is a vehicle to achieve the divine within us. But I'm also an American pop-culture person--I grew up watching Charlie's Angels reruns and going to rave nightclubs five nights a week --and I think it can be put in a big martini shaker and married with classicism." That could be his motto: Classicism Rocks...
...American Buffalo to the grief and anxiety of Sam Shepard's Simpatico, theater director Jesse Kellerman '01 is not known for his lighter side. "I wanted to leave audiences shaken and stirred," Kellerman says of the two productions, presented last spring and fall, "not unlike an excessively mixed martini." But with his next production, a collection of short satires and farces on contemporary themes showing this weekend at the Adams House Pool Theater, Kellerman is making a major departure from his dramatic past. For in the thick of reading period stress, the director has assembled an all-star cast...
Which Italian? Moderates might back Dionigi Cardinal Tettamanzi, archbishop of Genoa, while conservatives could go for Giacomo Cardinal Biffi of Bologna. And then there is Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini, a Scripture scholar and the archbishop of Milan, who has long been seen as a possible progressive successor to John Paul. "Martini would be the best candidate," says McBrien. "He'd be outstanding." The only sure bet is that whoever follows John Paul II will find the shoes of the fisherman very large to fill...