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...night. "I believed in all my heart it was in the future." Two years earlier, Reagan had addressed a crowd of some 20,000 near Berlin's Brandenburg Gate and challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Wall. At the time, even his closest advisers dismissed the notion as far-fetched. "It's a great speech line," Reagan's National Security Adviser, Frank Carlucci, remembers thinking. "But it will never happen." When the Wall came down, however, Reagan's speech entered American lore. "You look for one line you remember a President by," says Ken Duberstein, a former...
...version of The X Files - must be tickled to see the November lineup at the multiplex. He and his guests talked about the psychic phenomenon known as remote viewing, which is the subject of this week's George Clooney semicomedy, The Men Who Stare at Goats. Bell promoted the notion that Mayan mystics predicted some great cataclysm to befall the earth on Dec. 21, 2012, and next week Roland Emmerich has a thriller on that very theme: 2012. Bell lived near Area 51, the Nevada military base that may be a giant freezer warehouse for alien bodies; in two weeks...
...real thought, relying on a mixture of various clichés and repetitive electronic backdrops. And though “Transitions” isn’t necessarily a complete failure—his songs are listenable, indeed—it lacks substantive value, and it cheapens the notion of romance by reducing it to a set of false-sounding phrases. Leslie’s previous songwriting and producing successes have failed to translate into his newest role. He may have found success coupled with Beyoncé or Cassie, but alone, he flounders...
Zander J. MacQuitty ’10, in his sixth production with the HRG&SP, plays Alexis, describing him as the character that sets everything in motion. “He’s convinced that love will solve all problems. He’s obsessed with the notion of love being indiscriminate to age, rank, beauty, fortune, and [of it being] the cure for all ills,” he says. Those who attend the show on both weekends of its run will get to see two different takes on the role, however. Scheduling conflicts necessitated that...
While such a notion would likely slow most of us down, it seems to speed Mitchell up, torn groin and all. It is evident from his play this season that he is immune to excuses, and addicted to his teammates...