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...this production dares its audience to understand it. The play's title is in part an obscure reference to the giant fungus in Michigan, and it's hard to pronounce. The program contains a pretentious page-long explanation of the play's theoretical underpinnings, and the symmetrical set is stark save for two identical posters of a baboon. The production is consistent with these trappings, projecting a private sphere of highly abstracted jargon that probably only people involved in the production fully understand. But with a little effort, Oppenheimer's dense, seemingly disparate symbolism can slide into place...
...passion and desperation of East's characters reflect the spirit-crushing poverty of the East End. East is a stark portrait of this neighborhood which continues to endure in our collective imagination...
...battle over church strategies heated up this winter with the publication of a lively book, The Churching of America 1776-1990 (Rutgers), in which sociologists Roger Finke and Rodney Stark interpret 214 years of U.S. religion as a series of marketing coups. Historian Martin E. Marty summarized their interpretation: "No God or religion or spirituality, no issue of truth or beauty or goodness, no faith or hope or love, no justice or mercy; only winning and losing in the churching game matters." Marty, a Lutheran, remarks that it is "lethal" to reshape churches around the claims of returnees...
...team hotel after away games. The players are prodigious sexists, though so are the annies, and nobody knows it better than Ellie Jay, the gorgeous sportswriter who follows Barr's team. Her first day covering another club was legendary. The entire team greeted her in the locker room, stark naked except for Halloween masks. Ellie made her rep forever by asking "O.K., which one of you little pricks struck out in the seventh with the bases loaded...
FIGUREHEAD OR DICTATOR? RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsin seemed to be facing just that stark a choice: he could either bow to a resolution passed by the Congress of People's Deputies stripping him of much of his power, or dissolve the parliament and try to institute a presidential regime propped up by the military. Before resorting to that "final option," though, Yeltsin played another card: he sought to put the question of who should wield the ultimate power in Russia to a nationwide vote. But the Congress, staying in session two extra days, rejected Yeltsin's plebiscite plan...