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...After beating back the youth at Winged Foot Thursday with birdies on the last three holes and a 4-under-par 66, perennial comeback-story Jon Daly faces a tough time staying on top. After the round, the Sisyphean Betty Ford grad said winning it all would be "a shock." Can Daly, the man who walked out of the U.S. Open midround, possibly keep...
...Caryl Churchill's Top Girls), though they speak seriously to a contemporary audience and reflect the world their authors see around them. The lost children in Shopping, the vomiting drug users and underage "rent boys" that Ravenhill depicts with such clear-eyed intelligence, are not there to chastise or shock the audience any more than a stripper and a doctor in Marber's Closer are there simply to comment on sex as a transaction or on socialized medicine. These characters exist not to tell us something we already knew when we came into the theater but to represent particular, idiosyncratic...
...that the package had exposed wires but was not a bomb. Prosecutors hope to prove Yousef and suspected cohort Eyad Ismoil were responsible for driving the bomb-laden van into the trade center's underground garage on the day of the attack, which authorities say was intended to shock the U.S. into ending its support for Israel. "We know he directed it all," Vincent Cannistraro, a former CIA chief of counterterrorism, said of Yousef. What they don't know is who was paying his expenses...
WHAT WILL KILL THE BOOM Perhaps another oil shock. But the economy is in its seventh year of expansion--better than the 1950s and the Roaring Twenties. And this expansion should last out the 1990s, which would set a record for duration...
Still, Lilith is a welcome development. Right now, pop music is flaccid. The prefab hype of Spice Girls, the sugar-shock kiddie ditties of Hanson, the admirable wholesomeness but inexcusable tiresomeness of Bob Carlisle, the horrific power screeching of Celine Dion--turn it off. Turn it all off. It's meaningless olestra music, artificial and nutrient-free...