Word: shaming
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...left out Julia Roberts, making her Broadway debut in Three Days of Rain, but the poor girl has had enough grief from the critics - not to mention a Tony snub. She's too stiff, and her Southern accent isn't even very good, but the real shame is how tinny Richard Greenberg's once-intriguing play now seems...
...Shame on this revival. The 1954 Richard Adler and Jerry Ross musical isn't even a paid-up member of the Broadway pantheon. Yet the story (about labor problems and romantic entanglements at a pajama factory) is so effortlessly engaging; its songs so consistently fresh, tuneful and organic to the plot; and its two stars, Harry Connick Jr. and Kelli O'Hara, so utterly convincing as romantic leads that you come away believing that doing a musical is the easiest thing in the world. (Until you have to sit through Lestat.) The bad news is that the show closes...
...Abdul Aziz, journalists and other bystanders rushed to her aid, shouting at the thugs and trying to extract the woman. "Shame on you!" they yelled in a furious chorus of English and Arabic. "Are you animals?" The men backed off grudgingly, and the shaken reporter was ushered back to the relative security of the sidewalk."Cowards," spat Abdul Aziz as he walked away...
...mother unharmed but without power and conventional phone service. When I told him about the rising floodwaters throughout New Orleans, the rain coming in through the torn Superdome roof, and the lack of air conditioning and lighting for the evacuated multitudes inside, his reaction was predictable. "What a shame. I'm sorry to hear about all that suffering," he said, before adding, "But I am so glad to be living out here in the country, far from that mess of a city...
Some U.S. officials reportedly suggested recently that the shame of being the odd man out when G8 leaders convene on his turf in July might help bring Russia's President Vladimir Putin on board over imposing sanctions on Iran because of its nuclear program. But such misguided optimism harks back to the Boris Yeltsin era, when the newly democratic Russia played a subordinate role to the West. If anyone needed more evidence that times have changed - and perhaps retreating to the antagonism of the Cold War days - they only had to listen to Vladimir Putin's state of the nation...