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Grown men were crying. It was last Friday night at the Shubert Theater downtown, and a friend and I had just seen the newest revival of Arthur Miller's classic 1949 play, "Death of a Salesman." This version, starring Brian Dennehy as Willy Loman, swept the Tony Awards last year and has proven as formidable a rendition of the play as those starring Lee J. Cobb, George C. Scott and Dustin Hoffman. The performace Friday was no exception, and afterwards, as I watched fellow members of the audience cry--in some cases, bawl--I realized that the play...
...Michigan Wolverines (13-3-3, 7-3-1 CCHA) swept a twin bill over the weekend against visiting St. Lawrence (3-7-3, 2-1-2) in these non-conference bouts...
...winner--whose identity was and is unknown--could rightfully receive Florida's electoral votes through certification tomorrow. Counting these undervotes. not just in Democratic counties, but across the state, was and is the correct thing to do; it seemed able to overturn the growing tide of cynicism that has swept the American public, Democrat and Republican, as every court decision jerked the Presidency in a new direction...
...Does the Sun Shine?" asks the title of a popular They Might Be Giants song. Perhaps a better question might be, "Why does the sun shine on TMBG?" One had only to be swept away in the euphoria at the Avalon to realize that the answer is not too hard to find: They Might Be Giants know how to fire up a crowd...
Many of MacCready's daydreams involved nature's largest flying creation, the pterodactyl, which disappeared with the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. In 1986 a MacCready-inspired, wing-flapping, computer-brained, radio-controlled and astonishingly realistic pterodactyl was photographed as it swept over Death Valley, Calif., for the Smithsonian Institution's IMAX film On the Wing. Today his Gossamer Condor hangs alongside the Wright Brothers' Flyer and Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, which also includes the Gossamer Albatross and the pterodactyl in its permanent collection...