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...Mix those strutting pros and hardened fans in today's hoop arenas, and the chemistry is ripe for agitation. Games aren't mere athletic contests; they are in-your-face productions. Laser-light-show introductions, clatter-making Thunder Stix and scoreboard exhortations for more noise contribute to an atmosphere of confrontation. Players shooting free throws used to be accorded an almost respectful silence. Now fans attempt to distract them by jeering and waving towels. It doesn't work, but that doesn't stop the fans' behavior...
Frayn's technique is a fluid mix of re-enactment and narration, docudrama and memory play. Most of the story is told by Gillaume, a Teutonic Sammy Glick who worked his way into Brandt's confidence--and passed along everything he saw and heard to his East German contact, who converses with him from a corner of the stage for much of the play. We witness Brandt's political successes, the infighting among his Cabinet, his knack for galvanizing crowds and his weakness for women. But it's all surprisingly dry and flatfooted as drama: too much tell...
...Texas, which is losing more land to sprawl than any other state, would need more than 9,000 sq. mi. of right-of-way for the corridors, affecting critical wetlands and pristine prairie lands. The Big Thicket National Preserve, considered "the biological crossroads of North America" for its mix of habitats, was put on the list of most-endangered parks by the National Parks Conservation Association this year, in part because of the threat from the Perry plan...
...From a Goldman Sachs recruiting cover letter: Fifteen Minutes exemplifies all the qualities I hope to bring to your institution—dedication, wit, a love of the craft and, above all, a subtle mix of both overt arrogance and unabashed obsequiousness...
...really lazy,” he says with a mix of honesty and humility. Even at the prestigious first-round selection Phi Beta Kappa dinner honoring 25 juniors, he was humble. “I was just blown away by how I was by far the stupidest person in the room,” he says...