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...know we are golden, however, when we see the loiterers on the Cabot porch...
Though well mounted by director Scott Ellis, this 1954 play hasn't held up as well as the superficially similar work of William Inge, in which the poetry seems to emerge more naturally out of the front-porch realism. But it does provide a platform for an impressive Broadway debut by film and TV star Woody Harrelson. Instead of the larger-than-life hamminess that Burt Lancaster brought to the role on film, Harrelson has a bantamweight's charm and easy physicality (at one point he does a handstand onstage). You can almost, but not quite, believe he'd fall...
...most bloated companies are all obsessed with connectivity, however, doesn't mean that they actually talk to each other. Just look at the push to bring wireless networking to the home. The category is irresistible -- who doesn't want to be able to surf from the sofa or back porch? -- but the standards are anything but. Here's a quick run-down. MORE...
...experience him. He draws the group in, using the microphone expertly, letting a rich Midwestern gruffness emerge in his voice--it's the political equivalent of a Garrison Keillor radio monologue. "There's justice that this is where the presidency begins," he says, "in a neighborhood, on a front porch, on a summer night." He likes the line so much he repeats it, rhapsodizing about "running for the highest office in the land the same way you run for mayor," and never mind that Bradley never ran for such a lowly post. He offers well-modulated, impeccably timed, quasi-mystical...
...saying how he'd do this--when the details start coming this month, the sledding gets rougher for Bradley--but his words are thrilling to the chastened idealists on the porch, people who feel betrayed by Clinton and want to believe again. Still, some of them wonder if Bradley's ideas are a winning platform in the America of 1999. During the Q&A period, someone praises him for dreaming big dreams, then asks, "Why, sir, are you more electable than Gore...