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Allan Piper's lanky Hamlet resembles a figure from an Evelyn Waugh novel, dressed in Edwardian finery and scribbling in a little notebook he keeps in his breast pocket. His initial monologues are compelling and his command of the verse consistently excellent. As the play progresses, however, Piper seems to run out of emotions: he alternates between declamation and manis, with little variation...
...kind of thing out-of-towners spend $50 to see on the Great White Way. But Leonard Bernstein's "West Side Story" comes from a more innocent time, when a knife fight could seem a natural subject for a ballet, and a line like "got a rocket in your pocket" didn't automatically provoke knowing winks from the audience. To present that musical now, without turning it into pure kitsch, requires a daunting level of sincerity and enthusiasm. To do it with HRDC's limited resources, and to do it well, would be something like a triumph...
...games in D'Amato's office once provided regular occasions for lobbyists to rub elbows with the New Yorker, who now heads the Banking Committee and the steering committee for Bob Dole's presidential campaign. While nobody admitted losing on purpose--a ploy that would have let D'Amato pocket as much as $300 a hand--the Senator's poker buddies represented clients who just happened to have business before the banking panel. D'Amato's office said the games ended about four years ago. Some participants told the Times they played as recently as last year...
Although Investcorp calls itself a merchant bank, it is more like a leveraged buyout firm, the Arab world's answer to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Kirdar rounds up brand-name companies and repackages them for sale to deep-pocket clients in the Persian Gulf. At the right moment, Investcorp and its partners "cash out" by selling off acquisitions at a profit--through a private sale or a public stock offering. Investcorp certainly spends money like a billionaires' bank. An eight-story headquarters in Bahrain (Investcorp House) is complemented not only by the premises on New York's Park Avenue but also...
...write off entire countries with the toss of an aphorism. "The whole of Greece," he writes, "seemed to me a cut-price theme park of broken marble, a place where you were harangued in a high-minded way about Ancient Greek culture while some swarthy little person picked your pocket." Then there is Albania, with its blighted trees, hectoring beggars and vandalized shacks of houses. This Third World country in Europe's midst, Theroux notes, "was brutalized, as though a nasty-minded army had swept through, kicking it to bits...