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Mann channeled these earlier minor eruptions into great cleansing explosions. In The Naked Spur, Stewart is a bounty hunter who is shot, rolled down a rocky cliff, betrayed by partners, tortured by fever into screaming delirium. He uses the spur of the title to dig handholds up a sheer cliff, then embeds it in the face of his prisoner (Robert Ryan). Some fans of Stewart the gentle child-man do not like to see him become a snarling avenger. But that is what happens when the sense of one's own virtue is affronted. American innocence fairly begs...
Which it just might be. In its stunning L.A. version (with some new sets and other minor revisions since Toronto), Ragtime combines big social themes, imaginative staging and emotionally involving storytelling in a way that has all but vanished from the American musical. Terrence McNally's adaptation deftly re-creates Doctorow's tapestry of early 20th century America, with historical figures (Harry Houdini, Emma Goldman) mingling with fictional ones like Coalhouse Walker Jr., the ragtime pianist turned antiracism firebrand. Composer Stephen Flaherty and lyricist Lynn Ahrens supply a score alternately catchy (the ragtime numbers) and affecting (a wife's proto...
...part, the defense, led by Stephen Jones, is trying to show that there are "mitigating circumstances." These can include severe mental disturbance, an inability to appreciate the wrongfulness of one's actions, relatively minor participation in the crime and so on. The defense will not attempt to show that any of these apply to McVeigh, but there is a catch-all provision that allows it to bring in the background, record and character of the defendant. Accordingly, Jones will call witnesses from McVeigh's past with the hope of humanizing him and showing that up until April...
...broke effort to bring greater focus to the often discombobulated 5 1/2-month-old investigation. Hunter's agents have broadened their attention beyond the Ramseys to other possible suspects. While Hunter still calls JonBenet's parents the "obvious focus," he told TIME that "there are 500 to 600 leads, from minor to major." Chasing them down could take months. Any arrests, he indicated, "are some distance away." Meanwhile, it looks as if POLICE CHIEF TOM KOBY may not see the probe through. Under fire from his rank and file for a variety of grievances, including his handling of the Ramsey case, Koby...
Determined that the fall was simply a minor setback, I arrived on move-in day ready to dive into my Harvard career. However, by the time my crutches and I made it to Tercentenary Theater for opening convocation, I was ready to turn around and give up. In every way, Harvard just seemed so big, a place where, at best, I would anonymously blend in the with the crowd and where, at worst, I would be the slowpoke on crutches who was left behind in every activity...