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...article, I thought of another article I had read two months ago in The New York Times. That article chronicled the academic career of a current Latino first-year at Harvard. This student had come from one of the most underfunded high schools and one of the scariest neighborhoods in the South Bronx. He came from an academic program in which graduation--much less acceptance to Harvard--was a noteworthy accomplishment. Despite the fact that his SAT score is in the bottom fourth of his first-year class, his professors have nothing but praise for the work he has done...
...remains a marvel; we feast on a face that reveals everything with the arch of an eyebrow or the sag of a cheek muscle. His calculated temper tantrums are as believable as the silky menace in his most understated lines ("I couldn't possibly comment"). This is TV's scariest, most alluring villain since J.R. Ewing...
...eight weeks in Los Angeles, and more than half the soundtrack was recorded live rather than added in a studio. At the end of seven weeks of rehearsal, the company mounted the show on a soundstage for the original show's prime mover, librettist Arthur Laurents. "That was the scariest thing we did," Midler recalls. "It was like performing for God. At the end, he was very, very thrilled. That was the high point of the whole production." Maybe so for Midler. For America's once and, one hopes, future fans of the musical, the high point will...
...cunning, daring criminal managing always to stay just an infuriating half step ahead of his pursuer; a final confrontation that begins at a large, celebratory public occasion, proceeds to vertiginous grapplings along the edge of a big-city high-rise and ends with justice done by the narrowest, scariest of margins...
...scariest aspect is that since we are characters in this fictional world, this fictional world has become our own reality. People who overhear our dining hall conversations-"Yeah, so after the time-traveling rice pulls a shotgun on me..."-often take their spicy waffle fries to another table...