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...daily rewrites, stagehand mania, 49 foregone performances (to the occasional rage of ticketholders who traveled from as far as Maine) and cuts of nearly an hour once Perestroika was already in previews, the most awaited -- and beleaguered -- dramatic event of the Broadway season officially opened last week. If less profound than it pretends to be and a bit repetitively in love with its own bitchy-queen wisecracks and celestial effects, the show proved an absorbing entertainment worth the bumps along the road...
...they realized what really happened." Bert Fields, one of the two attorney-spokesmen for the Jackson camp, responded to the allegations by stating, "No one was ever fired by Michael Jackson for knowing too much." Moreover, J. Randy Taraborrelli, author of an unauthorized Jackson biography, noted the singer's profound distaste for ever being under the same roof with his parents. "For years Michael would drive up to the house and do a U-turn if he saw his father's car in the driveway." Nevertheless, says Mathews, "We'll let a jury decide. We hope to go to trial...
...tide of humanity that has washed over the American continent during the last three or four decades of the 20th century has had profound consequences, to be sure. But in relative terms, it is no match for the waves that came ashore during the 19th. Between Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815 and the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo in 1914, more than 30 million Europeans left their homelands -- some involuntarily -- to settle in the U.S. It was by far the greatest mass movement in human history. The influx continues, in ever greater variety. For people...
...example, the 10-year collaboration between Freud and Carl Gustav Jung broke off abruptly in 1914, with profound consequences for the discipline they helped create. There would henceforth be Freudians and Jungians, connected chiefly by mutual animosities. Why did a warm, fruitful cooperation end in an icy schism? In A Most Dangerous Method (Knopf; $30), John Kerr, a clinical psychologist who has seen new diaries, letters and journals, argues that the growing philosophical disputes between Freud and Jung were exacerbated by a cat-and-mouse game of sexual suspicion and blackmail. Freud believed an ex-patient of Jung's named...
...cast aside their Marxist zeal and set their country on the road to capitalism. Only 15 years later, China -- with a fifth of the globe's population -- is a candidate superpower, more involved in international life than ever before in its history. The impact of its emergence is so profound that scholars are predicting relations between China and the U.S. will shape the world in the 21st century...