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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? too is about characters being stripped of their illusions--but here they do it in a garish, Roman-Colosseum spectacle. The conceit of Albee's play--two couples spend a long, booze-soaked night exposing their secrets and lies--has been copied so often...
A retro, romantic musical about the rich and pampered? Sounds like something most American moviegoers would scorn as passe. But Allen is still a believer in the traditional musical, however out of vogue. "It always depends on the quality of the work. If My Fair Lady came out tomorrow, people...
E-money devotees like Valerie Baptiste, a San Francisco secretary, think cash is passe. Baptiste pays for her morning bagel and decaf with a smart card designed by Britain's Mondex and being tested in the U.S. with partners that include Wells Fargo and AT&T. As other customers fumble...
What with the spread of the World Wide Web and the increasingly cluttered electronic sight-and soundscape, the act of reading and turning wood-pulp pages may strike some as hopelessly passe, the informational equivalent of the fondue party. Two of the fall's more interesting books argue, perhaps unsurprisingly...
And dash any notion you had of cooking over a fire, or snacking on trail mix. Liquid-fuel stoves with electronic ignitions have made matches passe; contraptions like the Camp Kitchen from Coleman, the Kansas-based gear purveyor, allow any hiker to play Martha Stewart. The portable kitchen weighs only...