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...build." Now it is up to those who survive to build that legacy for him. "The peace process," says former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Edward Djerejian, "has always been a race against violence on the ground and the extremists." Rabin's death will not have been in vain if it helps the Middle East win that race...
...Phyllis, Sarah Burt-Kinderman progresses nicely from vain air head to vamp to madwoman. Her sarcastic banter with Bishop in the play's first scenes has something, appropriately enough, of Katherine Hepburn's archness. She is especially impressive in the rape scene, where Phyllis' revulsion and hysteria are truly disturbing. Even in the play's worst scene, in which Phyllis recalls a nightmare about fat men in skirts which comes dangerously close to moralizing about sexual intolerance, Burt-Kinderman is effective and at ease...
...remain unequivocally committed to making the dream of peace a reality and assert that Yitzhak Rabin did not die in vain. May we all see this dream realized speedily and in our day. May his memory be blessed. --Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Coordinating Council
...Eliza Doolittle leaving her mentor Henry Higgins to pursue a life of her own. To stymie efforts to tag on a happy ending, Shaw went so far as to write an afterword in which he married off Eliza to the foppish Freddy Hill. But Shaw's efforts were in vain: the wildly popular musical version, staged in 1956, six years after his death, ends with the unmistakably romantic reconciliation that audiences had secretly been hoping for for half a century...
...Sunset Blvd., the sort of megalomusical that is a killer to reproduce in a small theater. The place is a wasteland, and not just for New York visitors. Local theaters hoping to put on a show--with a plot, pretty songs and, please, no helicopters--look to Broadway in vain...