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...also offer to "inform readers of [the productions'] content." While underscoring your slant toward those who have not seen the production, this statement implies that a summary of "contents" is a substitue or supplement to actually seeing the performance. Plot summary, which takes up roughly a quarter of Adam Pachter's Endgame review, provides nothing more than theatrical Cliff's Notes, inadequate for readers who haven't seen the show, and redundant for those who have. If plot summary allowed you to understand two hours of performance, then drama would never have been invented, and Shakespeare would have been...
...Hoffman '91 Teresa A. Mullin '90 Lisa A. Taggart '91 Features Editor: Ross G. Forman '90 Editorial Editor: Emily M. Bernstein '90 Sports Editor: Julio R. Varela '90 Photography Editors: Rebekah C. Seaton '91 Gavin R. Villareal '90 Business Editor: Michael S. Harwayne '91 Copy Editor: Adam E. Pachter...
...Mullin '90 Joseph R. Palmore '91 Editorial Editors: Neil A. Cooper '91 Joshua M. Sharfstein '91 Features Editor: Colin F. Boyle '90 Sports Editors: Jennifer M. Frey '90 Michael D. Stankiewicz '90-'91 Photo Editor: Terry R.R. Roopnaraine '90 Business Editor: Andrew R. Jassy '90 Copy Editor: Adam E. Pachter...
...necessarily a kind of pro- Americanism. The Rambo look is all the rage among guerrillas in Beirut. The Sandinistas are American baseball nuts. Says Peruvian Writer Augusto Ortiz de Zevallos: "You see Marxist-Leninists with T shirts that say COCA-COLA." In the view of Marc Pachter, a historian at the Smithsonian Institution, foreigners may turn to the left precisely because they like American pop so much. At least in Europe, argues Pachter, youthful political anti-Americanism is a way of "justifying their enormous thirst for American pop culture. As long as they can bad-mouth the society that produces...