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This is the travelling through time. In the current Loeb Mainstage production, Eric Overmyer's On the Verge (or The Geography of Yearning), three game but proper ladies set out in 1888 to explore Terra Incognita, and end up eating Cool Whip in Nicky's nightclub in 1955. On the way, they find themselves in many a humorous situation--most of which turn on the juxtaposition of a Victorian lady with almost anything especially - and dispense marry an anachronistic bonmot...
Phair's 1993 debut album, Exile in Guyville, dealt bluntly, sometimes profanely, always intelligently, with sexual desire. It sold 200,000 copies -- a good showing for an independent release -- and won Phair critical adulation. On her second CD, Whip-Smart, Phair hews to her previous theme -- but where Guyville was an angry critique of relationships, Whip-Smart reveals a woman who appears much happier. On Supernova, for example, she sings with almost embarrassing exuberance about a lover who has proved to be ideal: "I have looked all over the place,/ But you have got my favorite face...
Gady had meat on his mind. The Clinton Administration had visions of 300,000 new jobs at home by 2004. But instead, members of Congress did what they have been doing a lot lately: they obstructed for the sake of obstructing. For months, House Republican whip Newt Gingrich had assured White House officials in private that he would vote for GATT, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which, according to the White House, could mean the equivalent of a $750 billion worldwide tax cut over the next 10 years through the reduction in the prices of imported goods. Sure...
Newt Gingrich has an eye for weakness, and when he spots it, he zooms straight in. Last week the House minority whip pounced on a tattered, Democratic- sponsored lobbying reform bill that was limping toward passage. He came in not for a kill, only to place a wound -- perhaps simply for pride of marksmanship. Straightening his Scotch tartan tie, the Congressman from Georgia upended his schedule, rushed from his second-floor office, stepped onto the House floor and delivered a five-minute, late-afternoon blast. He aimed at one minor and carefully buried clause, which he decried as "designed...
This excitement was palpable last Tuesday afternoon on the sun-drenched steps of the Capitol's west front, where House minority whip Newt Gingrich assembled more than 300 Republican candidates for Congress and predicted they would soon be running the place. Posing for scores of TV cameras from stations around the country, each candidate signed a Gingrich-inspired and pollster- tested "Contract with America," intended to mark Republicans as "outsiders" itching to clean up Washington. (On the advice of pollster Frank Luntz, the word "Republican" appeared nowhere in the background of the TV shot. "The party name should...