Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fresh translation of E.T.A. Hoffmann's Nutcracker with its Maurice Sendak illustrations is much more than a glitzy sugar and spice Christmas yarn it's a welcome return to textual accuracy. This season the perpetually smiling pecan masher's overly familiar ballet incarnation is finally stripped away to reveal the genuine handmade article from Germany...
...play opens, we see Shylock (Jon King)--in wheelchair, tuxedo and yarmulke--bounded off the dark stage by an enraged mob shouting "Kill the Jew." The lights go up to reveal an exquisite set, half of which is an elaborate nightclub (owned by Shylock, the program says), complete with bar and black-and-white checkered dance floor. The other half is Portia's plush, art-deco apartment. When the Keezers-clad cast breezes in, singing a hearty rendition of "Happy Days are Here Again," we are firmly placed in the '20s, when, we are to assume, everybody wore tuxedos...
...flavor and focus, however, when it comes time for Portia's suitors to compete for her hand in marriage: as the them song from. "The Dating Game" plays in the background, an emcee in a glittery silver suit and wide pink tie (David Angel) pulls a curtain to reveal three coffins, and welcomes a mob of cheering cast members to "Choose that Casket." Nerissa holds up an "Applause" sign. Here, the cast "deviates" from Shakespeare's script. After the emcee announces that the first contestant is the Prince of Morocco (Nestor Figueroa), he asks." Tell me about yourself--where...
Comparisons between the two surveys reveal some demographic trends: junior faculty now are a bit older, less reliant on their Harvard salary as sole income, and more likely to live outside Cambridge, with more women and fewer Harvard Ph.D.'s than...
Bush will spend this second term accumulating political ious and setting himself up for a run at the presidency.* At some point he will have to step out of Reagan's shadow and reveal his true political colors. No one can be entirely sure what they are. Ron Kaufman, a Reagan-Bush campaign aide, unwittingly made this point when trying to explain how circumstance will have changed for Bush by 1988. Predicted Kaufman: "In his next campaign, the way Bush is viewed will be totally different and what he is saying will be different." Only then will Americans...