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...Sills, a Fulbright scholar and former merchant marine, honed the Second City formula - an ensemble ethic and a focus on audience participation - with previous performance groups the Playwrights Theater Club and the Compass Players. Sills and Sahlins' professional relationship began while producing shows at the Playwrights Theater Club, and Alk had worked with Sills at Gate of Horn, a folk-music club in Chicago. When the three came together to build Second City, they stepped into an uncharted territory of comedy: improv did not exist outside of Sills and Spolin's projects. Comedy shows of that era were mostly rehearsed...
...They stepped out on a limb, and they were met with critical acclaim. Almost immediately, Second City set a standard for smart social and political satire. In March 1960, TIME wrote, "The audiences keep coming back to the Second City, on Chicago's North Wells St., where the declining skill of satire is kept alive with brilliance and flourish." (See 10 things to do in Chicago...
Correa, who has veered hard to the left politically since being sworn in for a second term last August, continues to enjoy greater popularity than any of his predecessors who lasted as long in office in the 30 years since Ecuador returned to democracy. He has an approval rating near 60%, according to pollster Santiago Perez. He has weathered scandals including past allegations of involvement of his officials with the FARC and numerous accusations of corruption on the part of members of his government, made since June by his older brother Fabricio, with whom Correa is no longer on speaking...
...Jenny Sullivan was born Sept. 11, 1962, in Winnetka, Ill., an affluent Chicago suburb. She was the second of five children in a prosperous Irish-Catholic family; her grandfather and great-grandfather co-founded the Skil power-tool company, leaving her a fortune in the millions...
...students in Tehran press the latest round of protests into a second week, the late Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini is emerging to play a role in Iran's unsettled politics. Soon after the demonstrations started, on Dec. 7, a video on state television showed an unidentifiable person tearing up a poster of Iran's revolutionary father figure. The Iranian media erupted with accusations. Conservative papers called for opposition leaders' heads, while reformist papers alleged that the video was manufactured by the regime to justify its attacks on protesters. Indeed, a website affiliated with opposition leader and former Prime Minister Mir-Hossein...