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...Dolly Parton was the night?s minimalist. The kitschy country legend belted out her best song bid, Transamerica?s Travelin? Thru, without the aid of the slow-motion dancers, smoke machines and elaborate sets that turned listenable tunes from Crash and Hustle & Flow into cringe-worthy performance...
...deranged demeanor lent the play humor and also created a contrast with the silent stillness of the Protagonist. The first play segued without pause into “Rough For Theater 1,” with the transition marked simply by a lighting change and Fishburn making his slow way down from the pedestal to the stage to play the blind fiddler A. He was joined by Wilner as B, a crippled beggar. The two try to make a connection, wedding B’s sight with A’s mobility, but ultimately B becomes cruel...
Such breathless collecting has helped prop up the slow-growth $15 billion athletic-shoe business. Makers fuel the frenzy by releasing limited runs of anywhere from a few dozen to 1,000 pairs of vintage and new styles in distinctive color combinations. Some are embellished with laser-engraved designs and lace badges, decorative metal clips attached to the laces. To ensure that these "quickstrike" releases maintain the allure of exclusivity, makers skip large retailers and instead sell to boutiques like M.I.A. Skate Shop in Miami's South Beach; Sportie L.A. on Melrose Avenue; and A Bathing Ape, a shop...
...Department of Defense's inspector general, which some analysts charge has been slow to investigate war spending, will open its first office in the Middle East next week. And a new watchdog project called Follow the Money will begin monitoring from the outside. It's sponsored by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and led by Dina Rasor, an investigator who helped uncover the Pentagon procurement scandals of the 1980s. "Normal oversight systems have not been in place," Rasor says. "Troops are getting what they don't need but not getting what they do need. One soldier told...
...with coming out early is that there may be more questions than we have answers to.” Some Charlesview tenants also said they were unhappy with Harvard’s recent plans for its future campus. “It just seems like you guys move so slow and then all of a sudden, bang, you’re moving at the speed of light,” said Debby Giovanditto, the president of a Charlesview tenants’ group that has opposed previous Harvard offers. “We need to step back and weigh everything before...