Word: versions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from this incident that they should duck controversial issues to avoid being smeared in this fashion. Only a few days ago you reported a remark by a Tufts student who disrupted a speech by a Contra representative: "No free speech for Fascists." What we have here is a milder version of the that did serious damage to America's colleges and universities in the heyday of Senator Joseph McCarthy. A new McCarthyism of the left will have the same chilling effect upon freedom of expression, and hence upon the quality of instruction in Harvard-Radcliffe College, as the old McCarthyism...
That was the original police version of the tragedy on Jan. 23 that heightened tensions between the city's police force, which is 81% white, and black residents. Yet police soon softened some of the sensational details. Only two witnesses out of 45 mentioned the alleged shouts; both said one or two black youths across the street had done the yelling. Police are not positive that Williams even heard them...
Some of the show's lures are known commodities: Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar) and Director Harold Prince (Cabaret, Follies) have mounted some of the flashiest spectaculars of recent years, including their prior collaboration, Evita. Practically everyone, it seems, has seen a movie version of Phantom, although few have read Gaston Leroux's turgid 1910 thriller about the hideously misshapen genius who constitutes himself the shadow ruler of the Paris Opera House and, upon becoming infatuated with a chorine, maneuvers her career from afar. The beauty-and-the- beast theme and subterranean wonderland setting echo the myths...
...heron; to another, an owl; and to a third, a cable breaking in a distant mine shaft. In most productions the moment is a throwaway. In a few it hints at the theme of an encroaching Industrial Revolution to which this doomed family cannot adapt. In the splendidly insightful version now at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the incident becomes a central metaphor. Just as the characters cannot resolve the objective truth of what they heard, so they cannot arrive at a shared truth about their moral dilemmas, or even realize that they are not confronting them together but instead...
...specimens distributed nationally are imposters, Big Apple Baking Co. in Brooklyn (no connection to the Chicago shops) last spring began marketing what it considers to be more authentic New York-style bagels. Vows Company President Allen Kent: "We will not prostitute the bagel." Despite that promise, Big Apple's version, which substitutes steaming for the boiling process, turns out to be soft and spongy...