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Joycity--a Poets' Theatre production of a Ulick O'Connor play celebrating the life and work of James Joyce. In a virtuosic one-person performance, Irish actor and mime Vincent O'Neill brings joyce and a multitude of the bard's characters to life. At the Poets' Theatre at the Hasty Pudding at 12 Holyoke St. at 8 p.m. Tickets are $12 to $20 and are available at the box office...
Chaplin, the fourth of eight children of Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neill, and Thierree, who has performed for such talents as Federico Fellini and Peter Brook, share a sense of theater as a primal force and of spectacle as something inward. For them it is not spiritual, exactly, but not entirely show biz either. Their circus began in 1971 in Avignon, when it featured 30 performers and a regulation menagerie. In the intervening years, the focus has become more precise, so that now the whole business can quite handily be contained on a bare stage, within the confines...
...FairTest, an organization based in Cambridge, Mass., has already written Congress asking legislators to withhold funding from the Bush program, arguing that it will not improve U.S. education and might damage it. "Politicians cannot simply mandate new tests and expect education to improve magically," says FairTest associate director Monty Neill. That opinion was echoed last week in Miami Beach, at the annual convention of the National Education Association...
...talking about our client level being what it was in 1979," O'Neill said...
However, according to O'Neill, the only action available to municipal politicians and officials who want to block the consolidation is to lobby state lawmakers, who control the purse strings of the Executive Office of Elder Affairs. "All we can do is put pressure," he said...