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...Mis(anthrope...
...more. In recent years the musical, which once planted America's theatrical flag from Rome to Tokyo, has been subjected to a kind of reverse Monroe Doctrine. The Great White Way's four hottest sellers -- Cats, Me and My Girl, Starlight Express and Les Miserables -- come from London (Les Mis originated in Paris). So does Phantom of the Opera, which opens in January but already boasts a $10.5 million advance sale. During the 1980s, dozens of homegrown musicals have come and gone, some losing as much as $7 million...
...prophetic conclusion to his underread classic Compulsory Mis-Education, the renowned sociologist Paul Goodman wrote: "In my opinion, the present system is not viable; it is leading straight to 1984....The change, when it comes will not be practical and orderly...
...idles before it starts, and once this film gets going, it really spec along Maggic Smith is fantastic--both in the nagging shrew she shows to Gilbert and the fawning but conniving social climber she reveals to Swaby. She also captures the essence of the British housewife, a special mis of dignified pretention and repressed horniness expressed in statements like, "My dear, this calls for sexual intercourse...
...mis-delivered "Secret Santa" gift apparently evoked images of the Nazi Schutzstaffel in the mind of Uri Almagor a Hebrew University professor of sociology and social anthropology living in Adams this fall...