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Today: sunny, high around 60. West wind 10 to 20 mph, higher gusts during the morning. Tonight: partly cloudy, low 40 to 45 except near 35 inland. Today: sunny and pleasant, high around...
...premise of the play shows obvious promise, but there is a problem: while On the Verge makes for pleasant reading, the dialogue in the context of performance is so "pithy" and high-flown that it quite often floats over our heads. There is no question that Overmyer means to celebrate language for its own sake (he says so in the notes to the play), but this linguistic festival often comes at the expense of the audience's understanding...
After resigning as artistic director of American Ballet Theater a year ago, Baryshnikov thought of quitting dancing too. But despite chronic knee problems, he admits, "it's neither easy nor pleasant to leave the stage. I never thought I'd spend my last years as a modern dancer, but it's important now to work with someone I admire." He had danced Morris' work earlier and spotted him as someone who saw dance the way he did, musically. "Mark decodes a composer's thought," Baryshnikov says. "He uses dance like an extra instrument." As for Morris, he seized on "Misha...
...nice? There are scattered reports that he can actually be testy and thin-skinned in private. But let's ignore these and stipulate that George Bush is a pleasant person and, more than that, genuinely decent in his personal dealings. There is a difference between that kind of niceness and decency on the public stage. Bush has perfected the art of substituting the one for the other...
...petroleum-producing countries become more involved in refining and retailing, they will carry off an increasing share of profits that might have gone to American business. Yet the overall impact of this steady loss of American economic sovereignty is not all bad. For consumers, it may bring a pleasant stability in prices. Reason: by taking a substantial stake in the refining and sale of the crude oil they used to pump for others, these newly empowered national oil companies now have much more to lose from a cutoff of crude to the West than they...