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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they always have been. Consider this picture: a kid sits alone in front of his computer, cruising the Internet. In the background a CD player blares misogynistic obscenities. In another room, the television features a teenage heroine contemplating violence against her classmates. The local sixplex is playing a film that spills more blood than a slaughterhouse hoses down in a month. And in most states, if you can't buy a gun with a few phone calls and a couple of hundred bucks, you haven't really tried...
...into that kid's room, unplug the computer and walk out. What have you really accomplished...
...those women crying?" Goodman asks as his driver pulls away from the Showboat hotel and casino. Just moments before, he had moved a group of seniors with a story of his 89-year-old mother teaching sculpture to blind children. Goodman, 59, walked out of the room with votes sticking to him like Post-it notes...
...tragedies is notable, for they stand in marked contrast to most of the pygmy-size works around them. New plays these days tend to be small, tidy things, dramas that tend their own little garden and don't venture very far into the wild outdoors. Hare's The Blue Room, which brought Nicole Kidman to Broadway earlier this season, reduced Schnitzler's La Ronde to a trivial actors' exercise for two. Hare then went one better (or one lesser) by appearing onstage alone, recounting his trip to the Middle East and calling it a play, Via Dolorosa. Another well-received...
Famous in Britain for blasting her critics and carefully tending her media image, Greer proves to be self-mocking and strikingly unselfconscious as she sits in the living room of her Essex farmhouse, with gardens, orchards, geese and pets outside. Complimented on the book, she begins rubbing her hands together and singing a song, a la Cream, whose lyrics consist entirely of, "I'm glad, I'm glad, yes I'm glad." She swerves from topic to topic, discussing her sister's flair for botany and home decor, spilling intimate details about one of her 13 godchildren, confessing that...