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...arcy James onstage) is a youngster consumed with a lust for power. Much like Leo Bloom in The Producers, he wants everything he’s ever seen in the movies. His key to the bright lights is the most powerful gossip columnist in the country, a vicious, preening Walter Winchel-like monster named J.J. Hunsecker (Richard Lancaster on film and Lithgow onstage). In order to get into Hunsecker’s precious good graces, Falco must split up the relationship between Hunsecker’s sister, Susan, and nightclub singer Dallas...
...many, his works are confrontational, provocative, aggressive, disturbing and even frightening. Yet below the vicious and vigorous black strokes that scar the surface of his work, Willem de Kooning’s art is a rigorous redefinition of form, a compelling and captivating investigation of the process of visual expression...
...then the Israeli-Palestinian conflict took a turn for the worse. Vicious suicide bombings became near daily occurrences, killing 42 Israeli civilians since Passover. In return, Ariel Sharon declared “war” and sent tanks into the West Bank. The Israeli Defense Force has spent the past week besieging Yasser Arafat’s headquarters, raiding homes, and destroying everything and everyone in its path...
...irony of these free speech claims is that campaign finance reform’s entire purpose is to increase the power of free speech for ordinary Americans who have had their views overwhelmed by the massive contributions and vicious “issue” attack ads of union and corporate interests. The judiciary should deal with this matter expeditiously given the longstanding restrictions on campaign contributions that are already in place. This new law simply updates and reinforces widely accepted principles by eliminating several loopholes left by the campaign finance reform legislation of the 1970s...
...garb by revealing the face of his wife in public. Many women in the more liberal cities obliged and by the 1980s less than half the women in Kabul, the capital, wore the burka. Under the Taliban, women had little choice: wear the robe in public or face a vicious beating. But Afghan women say this was more inconvenience than hardship. "Under the Taliban women weren't allowed to leave their houses, weren't allowed to work in an office, weren't allowed to study," says Sakina Hashimi, head of vocational training at Afghanistan's new ministry of women...