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...have a point--and not just because she's my niece. Wicked has tapped into a theme that seems to crop up in a lot of Broadway shows these days: stories of misfits or underdogs who prove their worth in spite of the odds. Hairspray revolves around a zaftig high school dance whiz who fights for racial integration and fat-girl power in 1962 Baltimore. The Color Purple, the Oprah-produced musicalization of Alice Walker's novel, is the uplifting story of an African-American girl's journey from abused teen to empowered adult. The action hero...
...spite of being one oar down and having the extra dead weight to be carried by the other seven oarsmen, though, the boat still held its own and crossed the finish line nine seconds behind the Bears with a time...
...explains its somewhat quirky contents. As a result of the collection’s organic growth process, its contents do not reflect a “Who’s Who” of the video art world. Nam June Paik, for instance, is nowhere to be found.But in spite of the esoteric subject matter, the gallery has seen a steady flow of visitors, and Lambert-Beatty is pleased with how it has been received.When Aranda and Vidokle first created the video rental scheme, they had no idea that it would last as long or travel as widely...
When I saw the cover image of VicePresident Dick Cheney [March 19], I thought I would be reading an informative and factual piece, in spite of the cute cloud you put over his head. Instead, I pored over an opinion piece with a number of unattributed quotes, more condemnation of the President and the Iraq war and a diatribe against I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby...
...nothing to prove. His life story suggests otherwise. The leader of the centrist Union for French Democracy (UDF) and for many years a minor presence in the rarefied world of French politics, Bayrou has emerged as a serious contender for the country's presidency. He has done so in spite of his homespun background. A smallholder's son from the Pyrenees, saddled with a stutter as a kid, he never rounded off his résumé at one of France's prestigious grandes écoles as many politicians do. Yet it's exactly Bayrou's ordinariness, his lack...