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...Murray is on hand for a brief master display of slapdash comedy. But "Space Jam, directed by Joe Pytka, is mainly about the wonder, the grace, the supernal niceness of its live-action star," notes TIME's Richard Corliss. "The film could have been a gleaming showcase for cartoon wit. Instead it's an 87-minute commercial peddling sainthood for Michael Jordan...
...past 12:30 a.m. on election night this past Tuesday. David Brinkley, the veteran anchor, took the president to task for being the do-nothing milk-mustached little boy that he is. "We can all look forward with great pleasure to four years of wonderful, inspiring speeches, full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection--plus more goddamned nonsense," Brinkley wonderfully declaimed. Perhaps it is due to the fact that Brinkley is to retire after tomorrow's "This Week" that the heroic news man unleashed such ire at the Politco of Politicos, at a guy who might just as well...
...program. The piece's vocabulary was quite different than the Beethoven which had come before, with angular themes, surreptitious-sounding pizzicati, and highly percussive tutti throughout. This idiom seemed to bring out a better side of the orchestra, which took the difficult rhythms in stride, found the wit in some of Shostakovich's jazz-inflected themes, and produced an impressive tone in the louder passages. Maybe HRO felt some affinity with the piece, which the composer wrote as a senior project at the age of 18 (and you think you work too hard on your thesis). Or maybe the orchestra...
...could easily be nothing more than a frothy, cynical delight, but there is some very deft social commentary at the heart of Christopher Hampton's play. The new production by director Adriana Abdenur '97, which continues this weekend at Agassiz Theater, captures the play's thematic complexity and scathing wit...
...defending his seat against Bill Choby, the 11-term Murtha could revive an old campaign slogan for this race: "John P. Murtha...the P is for Power." A ranking member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on National Security, he has a reputation for using influence to benefit his district; to wit, when the 12th suffered major flood damage this year, Murtha helped four counties get federal disaster-relief assistance...