Word: stein
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kirkland House Committee has a Stein Club once a month," said Krishnamurthy. "This month, the theme is St. Patrick...
Krishnamurthy said the Stein Club, which took place on Thursday, served Murphy's, which he called "an authentic Irish beer," and green-colored Rolling Rock...
...open spots on the board with liberal economists who could counter Greenspan's fiscal conservatism. "It's unclear which Clinton nominees, if any, could pass muster with Al D'Amato and the Senate Banking Committee," says Zagorin. "Names in the air at the moment include Harvard economist Ben Stein and Princeton economist Peter Kenen." With Clinton's re-election chances looking better, the President may be content to put off a potentially difficult nomination fight until after the November elections. The danger for Democrats is that in doing so, Clinton would leave two prime economic-policy making positions...
...Four Saints at the Houston Grand Opera gives new life to Thomson's hothouse flower. The production, which runs through the end of this week and will be seen this summer at the new Lincoln Center Festival in New York City, is the perfect marriage of director and subject. Stein's wordplay and Thomson's homespun music are direct antecedents of such minimalist classics as Wilson's 1969 The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud and the 1976 Wilson--Philip Glass opera Einstein on the Beach...
That it does in Wilson's production, and gloriously. Ignoring Stein's simulacrum of a plot (the lives of 16th century Spanish saints), Wilson treats the opera's Dadaesque musings as a delicate dreamscape, filling the stage with characteristically elliptical images. Some, such as a levitating illuminated triangle, are familiar from earlier Wilson spectacles, while others--fluffy sheep that slowly ascend into the heavens, where they become clouds--are new. Robustly conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, the opera's simple Midwestern melodies provide an ideal complement to the graceful stage pictures, while the cast, headed by soprano Ashley Putnam...