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...choreographer Mark Morris has been one of the most interesting and original artists in the modern-dance world for more than a decade now. In recent years he has gained wider fame through his association with Mikhail Baryshnikov, with whom he co-founded the White Oak Dance Project. Their sold-out shows across the country have introduced new audiences to the choreographer's work. Now, after three years of voluntary -- and controversial -- exile in Brussels, this wunderkind of American dance has returned...
...just when we need it most, there is a dearth of brave politicians willing to stand up to the conspiracy. President Bush, the ultimate political wimp, gave his tacit support for the stadium by throwing out the first ball in yesterday's sold-out opener with the Cleveland Indians...
...have much else to be excited about, granted, but they're pulling out all the stops for this one. In February, Postmaster General (great name for a band) Anthony M. Frank unveiled the stamp designs on the Showroom stage of the Las Vegas Hilton, site of 839 sold-out performances by the King (someone in the Post Office actually counts these things...
Baitz came to notice in Los Angeles in 1987 and off-Broadway the next year with The Film Society, a story of a failed teacher in South Africa, where the writer spent much of his youth. His latest effort, The Substance of Fire, is at Lincoln Center after a sold-out run at the smaller Playwrights Horizons. Structurally, the problems are the opposite of the Korder play's. The first half, about a family dispute over a publishing empire, surges with believable life. The second half, about the clan's Holocaust-scarred patriarch, clanks with calculation...
...sold-out crowd at Sanders was clearly in a mood to enjoy some election-year bashing. Buchanan described some of his favorite things (outlawing welfare, deporting Haitians, "basketball teams should employ more Caucasians") while the Democrats listened to "the Tsounds of Tsongas." ("Hello voters, my old friends, I've come to give the same speech again...