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...first step, Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, leader of the armed forces, and his Prime Minister Marc Bazin have agreed to accept up to 400 international observers who are supposed to deter human rights violations and create a climate for free political activity. The first batch is slated to arrive in Port-au-Prince early next week. Negotiators hope this will eventually lead to a pardon of the coup plotters, a new Prime Minister agreed upon by Cedras and Aristide, and an end to the trade embargo that has crippled an already weak economy. At this point the sanctions are punishing...
...Phantom of the Opera illuminates the pain and quirkiness of love in its many forms. We see the bluntness of the Phantom's passion; the sweeping epic romance of Raoul's love; and Christine's love for both. Christine, like the audience, sees the beauty of the Phantom's soul and of the music that he writes; she sees the purity that his grotesqueness obscures. We wonder, will love triumph after...
Love does, after a fashion. Although Raoul gets the girl, the Phantom does get the memory of love and its exquisite pain. Christine loves the Phantom the only way she can--by being his angel of music. An angel cannot live in the tunnels beneath the opera house. It is this realization that finally allows the Phantom to let Raoul win Christine...
...Will Rogers Follies, The Secret Garden, Once on This Island, Grand Hotel and, in an earlier gestation, Falsettos. The ardent browser will find off-Broadway hits (Song of Singapore) and fizzles (Stephen Sondheim's Assassins) and even the season's notorious flops on Broadway (Nick & Nora) and off (Eating Raoul). If Moose Murders had been a musical, someone would now be recording...
...claimed casualties, real and figurative. Allen's life and eminence seem permanently branded; the only major filmmaker since Charlie Chaplin to be commonly referred to by his first name is now likely to be remembered in part, as Chaplin is, as a despoiler of young women. Manhattan divorce attorney Raoul Felder, alluding to another disgraced director, says of Allen, "He can put his career in an envelope and mail it to Roman Polanski...