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This spirit has driven the best and the worst in American history, and so it does in Angels. The resonant words of the angel to Prior Walter--"The great work begins!"--could just as well replace "In God We Trust" on the dollar bill. The accomplishment of this dazzling, poetic and hopeful Angels in America is that it shows us how brave and reckless that American sentiment is, how fearsome and splendid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heaven on Earth | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

...network has yet to renew the highly rated Playmakers. Shapiro insists that the only thing that could kill the program would be high production costs, not Warren Sapp. "There's poetic license taken," Shapiro notes. "To personalize it and claim we are aiming at you is absurd." Now he's taking the NBA to the hoop: ESPN will air an Osbournes-like look at Dennis Rodman's NBA comeback attempt. NASCAR could be next. Shapiro has slated a Dale Earnhardt biopic for the spring. "Name me a great company that doesn't take some risks," Shapiro says. And name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: ESPN's Hot Play Caller | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

...wasn’t pretty; there really can be no poetic descriptions of any of last night’s tallies. What can be said is that Harvard did NOT shoot itself in the foot (see the Princeton game...

Author: By Timothy M. Mcdonald, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ON HOCKEY: Win Over Rival Terriers Ends a Long Stretch of Crimson Futility | 11/26/2003 | See Source »

...Jerusalem will remain united because of this war,” he said. “That is the irony of this war and what I’d call the poetic justice of this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Israeli Journalist: Arafat Doesn't Want Peace | 11/13/2003 | See Source »

...what I ended up taking from The River, more than anything else, was the mediocrity of its script. Fawcett is evidently extremely talented, but she needed the assistance of an aggressive editor. She created many moments of legitimately poetic language in this play, but those lines were overshadowed by torturous clunkers like “I regret my earlobes”—lines of dialogue that the cast somehow managed to deliver with straight faces...

Author: By Patrick D. Blanchfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Production of 'River' Drowns in Pool | 11/10/2003 | See Source »

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