Word: reborning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
EVEN WHEN THE GREAT WHITE Way glittered the brightest, it would have been an exceptional week that brought the openings of fiercely funny and trenchantly topical plays by three of the nation's leading dramatists. But if the theater seemed reborn with relevance last week -- thanks to Larry Kramer's poignant gay Bildungsroman, The Destiny of Me, David Mamet's lapel-grabbing vision of political correctness cum intellectual terrorism in Oleanna and Wendy Wasserstein's drawing-room comedy with claws, The Sisters Rosensweig -- Broadway was not part of the buzz. For reasons ranging from finances to the tyranny of reviews...
...Because that Reborn fanatic could have hidden it easily -- and no one would have dreamed of looking for such a thing. Pity ASTROPOL didn't catch him while he was still on Phobos...
...American schizophrenics who did not respond well to Thorazine and were given clozapine, more than half have shown significant improvement: they become less withdrawn, and the nagging inner voices grow hushed. One patient in 10 responds to the drug so dramatically that the effect is like being reborn. "You go from hating the sunshine in the mornings to loving it," says Daphne Moss, who after two years of treatment with clozapine is teaching public school part time and living independently. "In 15 years of practice, I've never seen anything like it," says Dr. Samuel Risch, a psychiatrist at Emory...
...BOTTOM LINE: The ex-Beatle is reborn in an album with the verve and sound of the Fab Four's early hits...
...four nominees for best musical a year from now." Other industry executives agree. Says Sabinson: "This business is cyclical." But then, just a few months ago, no one was so sure about Guys and Dolls either. The limos tell the same old story: hits are made, and Broadway is reborn...