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Since the alleged stalker was arrested six hours after the search began, the Office of the General Counsel and high-level Harvard administrators have begun an internal investigation into what University insiders are calling one of the most bizarre confrontations between police and administrators in recent memory...
...example, Elizabeth C. Hewitt, the director of the secondary school students' summer program, deemed the girl's fear of her stalker serious enough to move her to a new room. But authorities say Hewitt still would not let the police talk with the frightened teenager...
Artistically, Passion is one of the great turnarounds. During previews, it seemed hopeless. The obsessed woman struck spectators as akin to a stalker, too creepy to induce sympathy. Her unstinting devotion resembled emotional blackmail. The narrative, two hours without intermission, felt strained and wearisome. Many theatergoers fidgeted or tittered in the wrong places. (There aren't many right places to laugh in Passion, which makes no use of Sondheim's greatest gift -- a talent for writing intricate comic lyrics that fit the characters.) Sensing disaster, Sondheim and director-librettist James Lapine revamped the plot, recast a major role, picked...
...calashes, and long, meditative dinners at Delmonico's. Soon (as whodunit tradition dictates) the investigators themselves are being hunted -- by rogue cops and underworld enforcers; by ambiguous religious operatives representing powers and principalities with no interest in solving the crimes; and, it becomes horribly clear, by the same night stalker they themselves are trying to capture. And at about this time, Moore begins to have doubts: Are Kreizler's own exceedingly peculiar actions explainable by any but the darkest motives...
...like I'm a stalker, like in "Misery." I'm an equal now. I'm worth just about as much as she is. I just don't have all those farkakte Tiffany lamps...