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Chabon is playing a double game here: he's a Pulitzer winner with the verbal chops of a mandarin writing in the voice of a junk-sick 1950s pulp hack who dreams of being a Pulitzer winner. He seems to find the masquerade liberating. For once he never has to stop the action or worry about the prose being too purple or not purple enough. Gentlemen contains only trace amounts of irony. Best of all--and this is good for Chabon, who, unlike Updike, has a sentimental streak--the characters feel emotions only when they want to, and never more...
...much time off. Stroman, Brooks and company are back with Young Frankenstein, a new musical opening on Broadway Nov. 8 that's based on Brooks' 1974 hit movie. Also readying a new ballet for Pacific Northwest Ballet and a new musical for Lincoln Center Theater, five-time Tony Award winner Stroman talked with TIME about life after The Producers...
...Church, 206 Clarendon St., Boston. Free admission. 5) Bloody fun! What’s the best name for a costume dance party meant to raise awareness for upcoming Red Cross blood drives? Bloodfeast 2007! Machine Nightclub in Boston hosts this outrageous fete, which includes a contest for best costume. Winner gets $1,000, so go all out! Saturday, Oct. 27, 9 p.m. Machine Nightclub. 1254 Boylston St., Boston...
...race, our coxswain steered an amazing race.” The first varsity finished sixth among the collegiate boats and eighth overall in posting a time of 16.38.04. The crew ended the race 11 seconds behind defending national champion Brown, which wound up fourth and 17 seconds behind collegiate winner Michigan. The race started well for the Black and White, which kept up with Brown over the first half of the course. But after passing Weld Boathouse, the crew lost speed and fell back over the final third. In head racing, in which a boat does not have its opponents...
Nobel Prize winner, co-discoverer of DNA, and former Harvard researcher James D. Watson apologized Thursday for suggesting earlier last week that blacks tend to be less intelligent than whites. “I cannot understand how I could have said what I am quoted as having said,” Watson said in a statement to The Associated Press. “There is no scientific basis for such a belief.” Watson, one of the most famous biologists of the 20th century, shook the scientific community last week after his comments on race were published...