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...emerge off-Broadway in the 1960s and '70s (The Tooth of Crime, Curse of the Starving Class). Now both authors are being celebrated with Broadway revivals of Pulitzer-prizewinning works from their most fertile periods. The two plays, which picked up 12 Tony nominations between them last week, remind us that old-fashioned stage virtues--originality of voice, depth of feeling, richness of language--can still provide a thrill...
...camp," says TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich. "They are holding his KGB file over his head. As a result, Yeltsin can count on Zhirinovsky to come out with a tough anti-communist stance. Yeltsin, who cannot condemn Zyuganov too strongly at the risk of alienating voters, is using Zhirinovsky to remind voters that Communism...
Kienholz's best tableaus remind you what a long shadow Edward Hopper cast on American art. (It is a fair bet, though, that Hopper would have found Kienholz's raucousness and sexual satire detestable.) The Beanery, 1965, his famous reconstruction of a grungy West Hollywood bar--a little slice of hell, in fact, full of endless chatter, where all the clients' heads are clocks whose hands have stopped for eternity at 10 p.m.--has its affinities to Hopper's Nighthawks. Even the silver G.I.s in Kienholz's great antimilitarist piece, The Portable War Memorial, 1968, have a spectral Hopperish sadness...
Frustrating "only ifs" remind us how tightly budgeted our time here is. Declaring a concentration at the end of the first year, (a relatively premature time to have developed a narrow scope of interest) leaves one with little time to roam the college fields of study. Maybe I had dishonest parents or deceitful first-year advisers, but I was told to take a bit of everything--there is no rush to decide. Sure, I can take my time, maybe put off pre-med until after college and then add two more years to the already too-long trek to medical...
...historic levels of unpopularity a year ago now enjoys a 10-to-15-point lead over his Republican opponent and his highest favorable ratings in two years. Just last summer Sosnik was touring the country trying to persuade Democrats that the race wasn't hopeless. Now he has to remind them that...