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...agnostics—the “unchurched,” as she puts it. It has a following of about 30 college-age students in Cambridge, some of whom meet at the building that doubles as a school by day in a residential area between Porter and Davis Squares...
...Bush has thrown his support behind the 9/11 commission's proposal to empower a new intelligence chief to oversee most of the nation's intelligence operations, attention this week will focus on the man who has been nominated for the job it would supersede: director of the CIA. Yet Porter Goss, the Florida Congressman nominated by President Bush last month after the resignation of George Tenet, may well be auditioning for the bigger job too. Many Republicans and intelligence hands believe Bush is likely to promote Goss to the new post of national intelligence director if it is created. Indeed...
...year at London's Vanilla studios, they began work on their classic, London Calling. But the rehearsal tapes were left in the underground by a drunk roadie and thought lost. Now for the 25th anniversary, London Calling is being re-released with the newfound "Vanilla Tapes." TIME's Hugh Porter spoke to former Clash guitarist Mick Jones. your roadie recently confessed to losing the vanilla tapes. how did they turn up? They were thought to be the only copies, but at the start of this year I moved house. While sorting through a box I saw the tapes - I knew...
...Wodehouse's heart was in musical comedy. He was writing lyrics for London's West End in his 20s, and by 1917, five shows featuring his lyrics were playing simultaneously on Broadway. Commuting to the U.S., Wodehouse collaborated with Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin and Cole Porter. "Musical comedy was my dish," Wodehouse wrote of those happy days. "I would rather have written Oklahoma! than Hamlet.'" But the real money was in Wooster-shire. After a stream of popular stories about well-born wastrels, among them Bertie Wooster, Wodehouse introduced a valet named Jeeves. He paired...
...theater is that there?s so blooming much of it; a frustrating thing is that many plays bloom briefly, then fade after a limited engagement. Some shows run for ages that shouldn?t: the stodgy ?Blood Brothers? has run for 16 years; and Nunn?s rendition of the Cole Porter musical ?Anything Goes,? which moved successfully from the National to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, looked simultaneously stiff and frantic when I caught it. All right, the good die young. Here are notes on a few plays you can?t see, and I?ll have trouble forgetting...