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...perks of being a theater critic, in those dog days of the season when you find yourself struggling to sit through the latest Chekhov revival or pretentious little comedy about tightly wound New York singles, is the Broadway-musical revival. Yes, you can complain - as I often have - about unimaginative commercial producers who keep recycling surefire classics like Gypsy or Guys and Dolls. But there's good reason they're recycled so often: they are surefire - unfailingly entertaining, no matter how uninspired the production, the indomitable high points of a genre that is America's great contribution to world theater...
...come out on the winning side.”The Crimson constantly switching leads with the Hoyas, but the emotional rollercoaster reached its break point in the last minute of regulation play, with two high-pressure goals occurring in the very limited time frame.As the clock wound down in the fourth quarter, with the two teams trapped in a 7-7 deadlock, Georgetown appeared to put a nail in the Crimson’s coffin. With only 53 seconds remaining, Hoyas’ Todd Cochran recorded an excruciating tally, giving Georgetown a last-minute advantage.However, with defeat looming...
...Healing a National Wound Senator Patrick Leahy's advocacy for a truth commission, charged with uncovering facts about alleged torture and civil-liberties abuses by the Bush Administration, is warranted [March 2]. Despite all that is right about our country, it is painfully clear that we tend to set aside the moral and ethical breaches in our history. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up in South Africa in the aftermath of apartheid was designed to encourage a national catharsis of a shameful past. Most agree that the effort was worthwhile. Some would say there can be no forgiveness without...
...artists, but really the medium is being driven by writers.”“I think it started in a large part with Alan Moore and his work on ‘Swamp Thing’ and ‘Watchmen.’ What you wound up with is a host of more intelligent works.” While other comic book writers of the time shied away from the subtler nuances and deeper philosophical dilemmas, Moore welcomed them.“A lot of the superhero comics have always dealt with these characters with enormous abilities...
...She’s made the metamorphosis from her more raucous indie-folk inspired early albums to a more mature singer-songwriter niche, but it’s not clear that the softer spirit allows her to express her full potential. The occasional ominous rumbling of drums or the wound-up melodrama of vibrating string sections hint at powerful release, but Mirah tends to fall back onto lovely but less memorable softness. Mirah’s restraint seems set on driving home the pessimism underlying so many of her songs, as when she sings on “The World...