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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Director David McConaughy seems to be the only one in the production not preoccupied with time constraints. In the Leverett production, the longer, more accepted version of Coward's Blithe Spirit is employed. One really can't complain about the length. But when there are 10-minute intermissions between each of the three acts, one tends to get a little irked...
...plot is ingenious, and goes a little like one of those jokes that begins, "This guy goes to heaven, OK?..." In this case Joe Pendleton, a boxer, (or in Warren Beatty's version a professional football player, but then this play has gone through almost as many permutations as the jokes) is apparently about to die in a plane crash, and a newly hired angel, hoping to spare him some suffering, takes his soul a little early...
...trials in Iran have already been completed. This is no surprise considering that the Iranian judicial system dispenses with any testimony from the defense. Luckily, since a local version of Olliemania (Ali-mania) swept Iran, the Holy Court of Ayatollahs decided to break with tradition and hold a public trial. Special couriers have smuggled transcripts of this trial to the West, offering Americans a rare glimpse into the bizarre world of Persian justice. Printed below are highlights from the case, "Treacherous Infidels v. Holy State of Iran...
...concerned with reproducing Hank Williams as he was. We want his intent, his feel, as we hear it." The band, which has recently grown to seven members, also has a maverick edge that harks back to the best rowdy traditions of country. The Trinity Session contains a startling version of Lou Reed's acrid Velvet Underground tune, Sweet Jane. The Velvets were a formative influence on the Cowboy Junkies, one that is still discernible in the unpolished precision of their playing, all those drifting Svengali chords that put on the whammy and make every tune into a three-minute trance...
...current law defines a Jew as anyone born of a Jewish mother or converted by a rabbi, regardless of whether the rabbi was Orthodox, Conservative or Reform. The new version would legitimize only Orthodox conversions. Most American Jews have no intention of emigrating to Israel, but they consider the symbolic slap profoundly insulting. The vast majority of U.S. Jews identify with the Conservative and Reform branches, and believe their religious legitimacy would be challenged. They also fear diminished support for a radicalized Israel. "This is something of an endeavor to make Israel more of a theocratic state," says Rabbi Alexander...