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But the dramatist is denied these techniques. Theater cannot create perspective with the same precision as fiction and film. A playwright may only present what a character does and says or what others do and say with regard to that character. He or she cannot force the audience to look...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stage Direction: Entering the Theater of Insanity | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

A wide variety of dances and beautifully constructed sets and costumes by Sergiy Spevyakin dominate the second act, delivering a full offering of the company's diverse talents. The divertissements, although all delightfully and correctly danced, lack any real display of virtuosity. In the role of the Golden Idol, Christopher...

Author: By Mildred M. Yuan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tradition and Talent | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

Televised baseball, especially in big games that are the sport's full carnival, offers an individualism of faces, closeups of intense privacy (pitchers thinking, scratching themselves, anguishing, waving off the sign, spitting, trying to deliver a ball very hard from mound to plate with precision, as if a neurosurgeon were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Wish I Could Be a Yankee Fan, but I Can't... | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

Her publicist praises her work as "classic timeless pop," and those who are already fans of Cracknell's work with Saint Etienne would probably agree. Everything that shone about her vocal work for that band is even more obvious on her own album. Charmingly subdued and perfectly mellow at times...

Author: By Arts Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Albums | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

But at least they know the arrangements have all been made. With painstaking precision, each campaign raised its concerns, which were addressed by the debate coordinators, who in turn unveiled their decisions to increasingly anxious campaign managers. Here, thanks to the New York Times, are just a few of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sorry, No Phone Book for Debater Dubya | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

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