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...burst of acrobatic twisting, leaping and rolling with which Ramey depicts the devil's discomfiture at the end of Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele is one of the most breathtaking spectacles in contemporary opera performance. European companies clamor for his services; two summers ago, the Paris Opera staged a vivid production of Giacomo Meyerbeer's 19th century spectral curiosity, Robert le Diable, just...
That is hardly an exaggeration. Not since the reckless 1920s and desperate 1930s have the financial columns carried such unrelenting tales of vivid scandals, rascally characters and creative new means for dirty-dealing (insider trading, money laundering, greenmailing). Consider these episodes, all hard to believe, all matters of record...
Willy Russell's Rita was a risky choice for Steppenwolf and the two performers, Austin Pendleton and Laurie Metcalf: audiences were likely to have vivid memories of the 1983 film that won Oscar nominations for Michael Caine and Julie Walters as a drunken, shambling university teacher and his bright but unschooled adult-education pupil. But the troupe has put its own stamp on the show, particularly in Metcalf's performance, which persuasively blends resurgent hope and hints of fiercely suppressed desperation. The romance that dominated the film is played down, and the title character emerges as no winsome waif...
...Hanson and Levin cases are vivid reminders that defense attorneys frequently try to portray female victims of sexual crimes as either sluts or teases. "Blaming the victim is a very sexist defense," says Kelli Conlin of the National Organization for Women. "It started with rape cases. The idea was 'She asked for it.' " In recent years, though, new rape-shield laws have excluded from trials evidence regarding a rape victim's sexual past, except any previous relationship with the alleged attacker...
...sages were not always consistent. Johnson points out that while Yahweh, God of Abraham and Moses, was physically unimaginable, Jewish humanism is centered on a vivid Old Testament injunction: "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made...