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...which were caught once in the city'ssting include Albert's Market, Buy-Rite Liquors,and Ferro's Food Town. Those stores stung twicewere Parkingway Wines, Lil' Peach, BroadwayMarket, Prospect Liquor, Louie's Superette,University Wine Shop, Harvard Wine Company,Thistle and Shamrock, Fresh Pond Market, FreshPond Liquors, and Mount Auburn Market...
National Security Adviser Tony Lake, 53, is a Mount Holyoke College professor who once worked in the Nixon National Security Council under Henry Kissinger. A conceptual thinker, Lake is expected to emerge as the architect of Clinton's foreign policy. Clinton named Washington lawyer Sandy Berger, another former Carter State Department official, to be Lake's deputy...
...takes a Scrooge to say so out loud, but America's regional theaters have become sickly dependent on A Christmas Carol. Dozens of troupes mount Dickens' sentimental fantasy year after year -- using at least 20 different adaptations, most by artistic directors yearning to be credited as authors -- with ever diminishing artistic vigor yet unflagging box-office success. The profusion of wigs, frock coats and fake British accents typically has little to do with the rest of these companies' productions or the core creative reasons they exist. The show serves only as a cash cow and, in extreme cases, a tool...
...sharpest zingers are directed at the National Endowment (a funder of Sullivan's show) and at what Sullivan calls "the process of both censorship and self-censorship," as when the imaginary troupe's artistic director cites the works she dare not mount except in bowdlerized form. In the play within the play, the actual inspector arrives just in time to see the fiasco and adores it, despite getting knocked unconscious in the melee: she perceives a deep expression of the decline of Western civilization and a succession of welcome bows to political correctness...
...Hard Nut, which was seen on PBS last week, debuted in Brussels' Theatre Royal de la Monnaie in 1991. Thanks to Belgian government backing, Morris was able to mount a handsome production, with especially lavish costumes. The largesse makes it even more unfortunate that in the end the choreographer's imagination is defeated by Tchaikovsky. In the second act the music expands opulently, demanding matching grandeur onstage. But Morris wastes the grand pas de deux on a routine group number and sets the explosive coda as a small- scale duet for Marie, the heroine, and the Nutcracker Prince...