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...Mart and cavernous "category killer" outlets like Sports Authority and Circuit City electronics stores) and discount kings with the nerve to sell a little flair. "The newer national chains have come in with better technology, better inventory control and better investing management than the older regional companies," concedes Michael Sherman, executive vice president of Jamesway. That situation forced the 34-year-old retailer to liquidate its merchandise and close its 90 East Coast stores...
...death of a parent is one of the most traumatic events that can in a child's life. It is even more horrific and unjust if suicide is involved. Jonathan Marc Sherman's tragic comedy "Woman and Wallace" examines the emotional fallout resulting from such a catastrophe through the youthful and neurotic sensibility of Wallace Kirkman (Jed Silverstein), a "Jewish boy from Jersey," whom we witness grow from childhood to adulthood in just over an hour and a half...
...leaders of the Confederacy be allowed to flee the country. He could not state this openly. As president he would be obligated to hunt down and execute the traitors, but as a man believing in "malice towards none, charity for all," he just wished they would disappear. Lincoln told Sherman a story "about a man who declined a drink because he had taken a total-abstinence pledge and asked for lemonade instead. When a friend suggested that it would taste better with a little brandy in it, the man said he would not object if it could be added 'unbeknown...
...extreme worst-case scenario, so I may be overreacting. Perhaps I should just go back to worrying about overpopulation and rapacious development, which, if allowed to continue, will surely turn our battered planet into a toxic wasteland to which inundation would come as a blessing. DOUGLAS E. SHERMAN Brighton, Massachusetts...
...after they had played two selections from Ellington's Deep South Suite and "Red Garter" from Ellington's Toot Suite that the band finally began to warm up. The highpoint of the first set came with the second Toot Suite selection, entitled "Red Shoes." Solos by Ryan Kisor and Sherman Irby, and impressive clarinet work by Victor Goines took the energy of the band up to another level. The first half ended with two New Orleans-inspired pieces. First was Marsalis's "Slow Drag," a programmatic piece about the Crescent City after hours. Wycliffe Gordon's trombone growls exemplified...