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...disorientation starts in the very first minute. The play opens in the future - the year 2039, according to the program - as an elderly man stands amid an apocalyptic deluge of rain, and a fish falls out of the sky. We then move back and forth in time, in seemingly random order, with characters from different time periods - sometimes older and younger versions of the same person - often overlapping on the stage. Only gradually do the stories emerge of two apparently unrelated families, one in London and one in Australia, who have been scarred in different ways by tragedy and abandonment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best New Play of the Year | 3/18/2010 | See Source »

There are a precious few things in this world that people can't complain about. The writing skills of Shakespeare, for example, or a pink sky from an ocean sunset. And of course, the NCAA men's basketball tournament, which tips off on Thursday. Sure, a few fans are irked that their schools got snubbed from the Big Dance. But the tournament itself, with its brackets, buzzer beaters and wall-to-wall ball during the first two days, may be the most delightful sporting event on earth. Even the debate about which teams got shafted is part of the tournament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NCAA Mulls Expanding March Madness. Are They Mad? | 3/18/2010 | See Source »

...walls are alive with movement. Mounted video screens capture the undulation of the grass in a western plain, the nuzzling of two blue roan horses on a green hillside, and the neurotic twitching of a golden eagle’s head against a blue sky...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar and Julia L Ryan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: National Treasures | 3/9/2010 | See Source »

...notion. As for the yellow handkerchief of the title, I'd have dismissed it as a cheesy device if it weren't for the fact that I'm still cherishing the eloquence of Hurt's silent marvel when he finally sees it, fluttering across the gray Southern sky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yellow Handkerchief: An Oddly Enticing Road Trip | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

...People will see that the sky isn’t going to fall, that there’s no harm being done,” Eldridge said, stating that D.C. is only the sixth jurisdiction to sanction same-sex marriage. “It’s also a reminder that there’s still a lot of work to do, and people are no longer okay living in a country where this kind of discrimination continues...

Author: By Alice E. M. Underwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Washington, D.C. Sanctions Gay Marriage | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

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