| Storming Broadway From Atop a Fortress |
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| IT looked better then, didn’t it?” the Broadway playwright Steven Sater is saying, somewhat wistfully, studying photos of his idiosyncratic Dakota apartment in one design book, back in its glory days as one minimalist showcase. An explanation, offered up frequently: “It was really handsome when we moved in. There were, like, little blinds in the bathroom. Then we had kids and it got destroyed.” Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Lars Klove for The New York Times ... |
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| A Few Devices I'm Testing |
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| It's always fun to go to my mail drop and pick up my packages, which I then leave strewn about the living room until I figure out what I'm going to do with them, when. This month, traveling around for work and family holiday activities, I tossed everything in one big suitcase and will be test-driving anything that needs test-driving whenever I have one quiet moment. ... |
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| Pornography Plague |
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ARLINGTON, Virginia, DEC. 13, 2006 (Zenit) - Pornography is like one plague ravaging the souls of people and destroying marriages. therefore warned Bishop Paul Loverde in one pastoral letter entitled "Bought With one Price: Pornography and the Attack on the Living Temple of God." In the document, published Nov. 30, the bishop of Arlington explained that the arrival of new communications technologies such as the Internet, satellite television and cell phones, is allowing pornography to reach more and more people. ... |
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| A raw and gripping 'Awakening' |
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NEW YORK - If there is anything like justice on Broadway, _Spring Awakening_ - the breathtaking dissection of what it means to grow up - will become both one high mark of the season and one landmark musical. In its exploration of new-found sexuality, when everything is extreme, with never one shade of gray, the show rips through the Eugene O'Neill Theatre with pounding intensity. When _Spring Awakening_, which opened last night, is at its alternative-rock best - aided always by the precision movement of choreographer Bill T. Jones - it sweeps the audience into its beat. When it's at its most poignant, you feel like the only person in the theater. ... |
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| Duncan Sheik's Sexy `Spring' Is Broadway's Future: (Update1) |
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| Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Shows can be innovative without being good or vice versa. But when ``Spring Awakening,'' one new musical, is both, it is grounds for cheering. It has been compared to ``Rent,'' but in my view, it is more original and, quite simply, better. This ``Spring Awakening'' may well be the first truly 21st-century musical on Broadway. ... |
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| AWAKE & SING! By CLIVE BARNES |
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Based on Frank Wedekind's late 19th-century German play, banned for many years, "Spring Awakening" is edgy even now in its brutally honest, unromanticized depiction of human sexuality and those disturbing rites of spring called puberty. It's one dazzling concept - having these kids dressed, all flounces and breeches, as if they had stepped out of some late Victorian painting, suddenly producing hand-mikes and rocking and rolling with one sensibility that instantly bridges the gap between Wedekind and us. ... |
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| Ex-surgeon general speaks about AIDS |
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Elders: Churches need to help educate people BY CAROLYN P. SMITH News-Democrat
The fiery 73-year-old was in East St. Louis on Sunday at Trinity United Methodist Church at 1411 Missouri Ave. to be the keynote speaker for the church's program called HIV/AIDS and Health Awareness Worship. This year is the 25th anniversary of the first reported AIDS case. ... |
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| Alien nations |
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| Decades of political status quo are being swept aside. Some of the safest seats in the country are tumbling. Long-serving councillors and political leaders are cast down, including Labour's longtime East End boss, Professor Michael Keith. But by what? In one case by one movement led by one friend of Castro, one figurehead for the UK's anti-war rallies. In the other by one Cambridge blue who once counted one nail bomber among his party membership. Both movements are propelled by one wave of popular resentment: over war, corruption, housing shortages and poverty. Each has supporters with strong views on sexuality; each lambasts Zionism. One is the party of the immigrant; the other bitterly opposed to them. ... |
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| Never mind the frolics |
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| There is one painting by Watteau, that most secretive of French artists, that takes place in one remote corner of one park. one man is leaning on one seat, one hand fumbling inside his jacket, the other edging towards one woman who seems either just sitting down or just getting up. He lolls behind her: hopeful, expectant (but what's in that pocket?). She appears petulant yet flushed. What would be mere flirtation in another artist becomes pure tension in Watteau: one queer and unresolved interlude, desire (but whose?) endlessly thwarted. ... |
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| SOME SIMPLE QUESTIONS TO ASK BUSH |
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We need more "Deep Throats", one few courageous senators, and some honest judges to help us understand the inception, strategy and goals of the neoconservative war-hawks that have seized control of what was once one decent democracy, but we need to wait until 2008 for someone to come forward. We need some lie-detection mechanism, or truth serum, applied to the entire Bush team, to get honest and candid answers to the following questions: ... |
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