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Former council member Mark P. Parisi '93 said he doubts Beys can fully shake his dubious reputation and improve the esteem of the oft-maligned council...
...John Tillinger's intimate, immaculate staging, The Last Yankee plays like a last contrition -- with a bit of sermon thrown in. Miller has been in the pulpit so long that he can't completely shake the preacher's jeremiad cadences from his voice, even when he wants to whisper. When Leroy says, "Maybe I am a failure, but in my opinion no more than the rest of this country," his private anguish is being overrun by Miller's political agenda, like a radio sonata interrupted by a campaign commercial...
...Quayles were on the high ground, surrounded by the victors, every facial tic and gesture being beamed around the world. Bush searched for friends. The Joint Chiefs of Staff, such stalwarts through the Persian Gulf and now in Somalia and Iraq, were nearby, and he leaned far over to shake hands. Suddenly, from behind them, came the face and hand of Admiral William Crowe, the former Chairman, who had made a splashy stand for Clinton during the campaign. Warm shake. Nice words. Hostilities contained...
...declare he was misunderstood. In fact, he had been found out: without the scaffolding of tragedy, his stagecraft was exposed as ramshackle, his creatures as puppets. Though producers drag Anna Christie out of the closet every decade or so (for Ingrid Bergman, Celeste Holm, Liv Ullmann), they can't shake the mothballs from it. "Isn't it terrible?" said Greta Garbo, who toiled nobly in a 1930 film version. "Who ever saw Swedes act like that...
...Strong), Colvin, 32, has paid beaucoup dues, working the Manhattan folk scene for more than a decade, in between gigs singing jingles and touring in Pump Boys and Dinettes. With Fat City she needn't worry about paying the rent. Its 11 songs are strong, tuneful, as hard to shake off as a wraith's visitation or a first love...