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Glittering on the horizon are Carousel, in a staging that is already a hit in London, and Damn Yankees, now a smash at San Diego's Old Globe Theater. Both concern the collision of the supernatural and the everyday, the former with tragic dimensions and the latter with bawdily comic ones. Carousel has been reimagined in its physical production; Yankees, full of passe baseball references and bygone mores between men and women, has undergone a revamping of its book. Both have the potential to make the best possible case for revivals: they are far better than anything new that...
...supporters were appalled. "It's disheartening that a large number of fairly intelligent people could do such a dumb thing," lamented Nobel- prizewinning physicist Leon Lederman. His frustration is understandable. Since the 1930s, physicists have been using accelerators to smash atoms together and analyze the debris, with an impressive result: the discovery that matter in all its complex forms seems to be made up of just a few simple particles operating under a handful of basic forces. But this so-called Standard Model is a puzzle that's not quite complete, and finding the last pieces would take something like...
...jubilant gesticulations of Damian Williams as he crushed Reginald Denny's skull, some people find violence uniquely satisfying and do not hesitate to do violent things. This is what must be changed. When we don't like the image we see in the mirror, we may be tempted to smash it; that only hides the problem. We have to change ourselves...
After hearing a radio transmission about thetwo "smash and grab" incidents around 4 a.m.Monday, Maloney and Morrison observed the twosuspects sitting in a the white Oldsmobile onParker St. in Roxbury, Rooney said. The officersthen activated their lights and sirens, and theOldsmobile pulled over...
...sure we can get RichardGere, AnjelicaHuston, Lily-Tomlin, and BDWong. Oh yeah, and what about that Brit?....ya' know, the gay one...McKellen. And I'm sure MatthewModine, AlanAlda, PhilCollins, SwoosieKurtz, and SteveMartin will atleast be interested. I'm tellin' ya'. I smellahit. It'll be a smash. Whuddayathink...