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...WOMEN'S MOVEMENT OF THE '70S WAS THE lightning flash of female empowerment, then the long-awaited roll of thunder began to resound in this year's election results. From coast to coast, women candidates, thrust forward by Anita Hill-inspired outrage and helped along by anti-incumbency sentiment, were in contention as never before...
DARK MEANINGS still reverberate like distant thunder from the last millennial passage. There was no widespread panic at the approach of the year 1000, as some writers have claimed, but an inescapable note of Armageddon was in the air. Men pondered over the text of the last days in the book of Revelation: "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea" (Revelation...
Sure, Princeton looks light-years ahead of everyone, despite losing its quarterback. Yes, Dartmouth's Vanilla Thunder will contend this year with its solid coaching and recruiting...
Sure, Princeton looks light-years ahead of everyone, despite losing its quarterback. Yes, Dartmouth's Vanilla Thunder will contend this year with its solid coaching and recruiting...
...comes with that much massed humanity." She adds dryly, "The downside is the body miking." The Central Park sound system is notoriously tinny, and actors cannot seem to master the technique of not hitting the mikes when they scuffle, so every few minutes the audience hears what sounds like thunder. Another downside is the sheer size of the stage and audience, which can tempt film stars, fearful of understatement, into almost operatic playing. That happened last week to Marisa Tomei, the street-corner ingenue of My Cousin Vinny, in a vaudeville-influenced staging of The Comedy of Errors. While Brazilian...