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...Dinner With Andre against a worldly canvas of commercialism and decay. His opening shot frames a refuse bin piled over with garbage, before widening to the dingy vision late afternoon sunlight casts on a New York City street. The closing credits play in front of a strip of posh boutiques caught by a camera moving along with the nighttime taxicab. Like a painter shadowing still-life with the dim light of a candle, Malle offers these tableaux to mark the disjunction between this reality of day and night, sights and sounds, and the restaurant where Wally goes to find Andre...
Harvard's academic reputation and a flexible, improving basketball program drew both players to Cambridge, though they were initially promised posh lodgings at a renovated Briggs Cage, not the fifth-floor high school gym at the IAB. In making his choice. Ferry--the more highly touted of the pair--benefited from the guidance of two fairly well-educated basketball men: his father, Bob Ferry Sr., general manager of the Washington Bullets, and Celtic guru Red Auerbach, a family friend...
...spread the influence of their theories. Joining the tales of Archimedes jumping up and down in his bathtub yelling "Eureka" and a prim and patrician Isaac Newton cursing the apple that hit him on the head is the fable of three men in business suits having dinner at a posh Washington restaurant. Arthur B. Laffer, an upstart economics professor from California, Louis Lehrman, and Wall Street Journal editorialist Jude Wanniski were finishing their drinks, as the story goes, when conversation shifted to one of their favorite topics, conservative economics. Wanniski (or was that Lehrman?), asked if it was possible...
...service, and work as crew members on, Libya's Hercules troop transport planes and Chinook military helicopters. Said a State Department spokesman of the activities promoted by the former CIA agents: "We find it reprehensible and against the interest of peace and security." Wilson, operating out of his posh villa in Tripoli, is still actively engaged in providing support for the Libyan military, and the Times quotes some of those involved as saying that Americans have been sustaining Gaddafi's yearlong intervention into neighboring Chad...
...play-within-a-play begins, Spelvin enters dressed in black Renaissance garb, but the setting is a terrace of a posh hotel overlooking the harbor at Nice, and the first lines addressed to him are from Noel Coward's Private Lives. The plots thicken and boil. Beckett's Endgame and Happy Days are intermingled as well. With zany aplomb, Durang combines absurdist juxtapositions of lines and characters in Spelvin's massive identity crisis...