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...INNOVATE or not to innovate? 'Tis it nobler to experiment with the basic texts of English theater or to remain faithful to the immortal words of the Bard? Lisa Freinkel's production of Macbeth answers these questions with resounding indecision. Actors in odd costumes stride about on a modishly surreal set, but the performance never takes us anywhere we haven't been before...
...break stride as he mounted the steps alongside the Jihadair DC-10. "Ah, they're harmless. They're already obsessed with the annihilation of Iraq. By the time they finish that massacre there won't be any Iranians between the age of eight...
...half-remembered moment from their athletic youth. They call that moment into focus at the bar, embellishing it. An argument ensues. "In your dreams," someone says. They laugh. The bar door opens. A big, shambling man with a droopy mustache enters with the tender-kneed, left-right stride of a man who's fallen off too many broncos. He is wearing a goose-down vest, a snap-button shirt, jeans and pointy-toed cowboy boots, all of which look out of place in this working man's, New England bar. One of the men at the bar glances over...
...25th anniversary reunion for Buchanan High's class of 1960, and the gym is festooned with memories. Photo blowups freeze Michael Fitzsimmons (Kevin J. O'Connor), track star and would-be Kerouac, in full youthful stride. A larger-than-life-size shot of Prom Queen Peggy Sue Kelcher (Kathleen Turner) and King Charlie Bodell (Nicolas Cage), who soon got married and later separated, captures the popular couple with their teen dreams intact and life's promises spread before them like a red carpet. The blowups could be relics of a religion -- innocence -- that all in attendance want desperately to believe...
...have a significant impact on the economy. If stock prices fell that far, executives might curb their companies' capital investment and consumers might reduce their spending enough to trigger a recession. But the stock market steadied last week, rising 3.93 points to close at 1762.65. Investors took in stride the "triple witching hour." On the third Friday of the last month of each quarter, contracts on stock options, stock index futures and stock index options all expire. In the past, the triple witching hour has brought volatile market moves, causing the Dow to rise or drop as much...