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...Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde--a surprise success way-off-Broadway that has just moved to larger quarters--playwright and director Moises Kaufman has dramatized that fall with the sort of rapier stylization that Wilde himself would have admired. Nine actors facing the audience in two rows--a kind of oratorio at the Old Bailey--re-enact the legal proceedings and comment on them at the same time, using excerpts from newspaper accounts, biographical works and the memoirs of Wilde and others. It's a dazzling coup de theatre, at once compelling history and chilling human drama...
...remaining after this intermission includes several of the weakest moments of the film, particularly in the final scene. When Hamlet finally kills Claudius, after prancing about with Laertes in their respective chest wigs, he does it as if cut from the same cloth as "Flash Gordon." Throwing his rapier from the balcony like a javelin, Hamlet pins Claudius to his throne (note: poetic justice) and swings down on the chandelier in order to splash drops of poison into his mouth, all the while bellowing about his impending death, the stellar revenge he has enacted, and his chest hair. (Well...
...which brings real world business executives to the Business School for programs ranging in length from three days to several months, has expanded enormously over the last few years, according to HBS Chief Financial Officer Donella Rapier...
Green Tree represents the rapier edge of a red-hot specialty: the business of making loans to people with damaged credit at interest rates that start at high and extend to very high and nosebleed. Depending on where you sit--whether you are the lender or the borrower--this is either an industry filling an underserved market, or legal usury. Often known as sub-prime finance, the sector is taking off in part because of sophisticated software that allows even onetime deadbeats to get loans approved in minutes over the phone or as they sit in the offices of mortgage...
...charmer's rope, a church facade. (Take the stairs? What's the fun in that?) And then he would leap: from roofs or high windows; from a rock onto a distant tree; from a rampart onto a sheer castle wall 15 ft. away. Doug was a whiz with a rapier, a whip, a bola. He could somersault off a horse, trampoline from one speeding car to another. He was a fellow you literally could not keep down--a movie vision of young America on the ascendance in the decade after World...