To the editors: I commend your excellent research and accurate reporting in your article, “Is Nothing Sacred?” [June 9]. As I know most of the people whom you interviewed, I would like to respond, mainly for the benefit of non-Episcopalians. Jim Rosenthal’s comments (p. 36) display both fallacious reasoning and inaccuracies. Every introductory logic course […]
Tag: Vol. 18 No. 39
Issue of Jul. 13 – 19, 1989
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Dream Stuff
MACAO, OR BEYOND THE SEA *** (A must-see) Directed by Clemens Klopfenstein Written by Klopfenstein, Wolfram Groddeck, and Felix Tissi With Max Ruedlinger, Christine Lauterburg, Hans-Dieter Jendreyko, Shirley Wong, and Che Tin Hong. 1. Some part of me feels an enormous gratitude for movies that I don’t fully understand. The compulsive legibility of commercial movies–designed […]
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Hull House Theater: The Early Days
To the editors: For all the acclaim given to Robert Sickinger for his success at Hull House Theatre during the 1960’s [Calendar, April 28] Hull House had, in fact, established itself as a center for innovative theater many years ago. The harsh economic realities of World War II abruptly ended a long tradition of stimulating […]
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Lights and liquor: Wrigleyville residents are losing the power of the beer ban
For almost a year now peace has reigned at Wrigley Field. The Cubs have their lights, the fans a pennant run, and the residents of nearby Lakeview, well, they’ve more or less accepted the fact of night baseball. But last month the General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a bill that would abolish one of home rule’s […]
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How to Deal With Commonwealth Edison
To the editors: How well advised are readers of the Reader’s “Neighborhood News” of June 16th 1989 by writer Ben Joravsky when he tells ratepayers–and who isn’t!–not to thumb their noses at Commonwealth Edison. But what can a person do? So you fight and you lose–leaving it up to Edison to do the right thing–but […]
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New and Noteworthy
NEW DANCES ’89 Chicago Repertory Dance Ensemble at the Ruth Page Foundation Theatre July 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, and 22 So where else can you go to see seven spanking-new dances by a total of 11 choreographers, some taking a first stab at making dances, and not be disappointed? Chicago Repertory Dance Ensemble’s “New […]
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Amateur Theology
To the editors: As a graduate student in the Department of New Testament and Early Christian Literature at the University of Chicago, I read the recent interview with Mr. Sheehan [April 21] with great interest. Undoubtedly Mr. Sheehan is a thoroughly competent philosopher, but with regard to his expertise in the study of the “Historical […]
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Oba Oba
OBA OBA at the Shubert Theatre The publicity for Oba Oba heralds the show as “the Brazilian extravaganza,” and that’s no lie. Part 1950s movie musical, part folkloric ballet, part ethnomusicological display, and part nightclub revue, Oba Oba is an unabashed exercise in spectacle. With its bare-breasted dancing girls and bare-chested muscle men, its mountains […]
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Art Facts: Axe St. Arena’s closing statement
Contrary to the rumors, there is no Axe Street manifesto of political correctness. Nor is there a board of directors, a corporate structure, a millionaire backer, a profit motive, or a bottom line. “We wanted to have a gallery that had a political impulse,” explains M.J. Marchnight, one of the six founding members of the […]
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Andy Warhol’s Big Joke
To the editors: The controversiality of Andy Warhol is, by no means, an indication that his works are important, or that he is an artist [“Andy Warhol: A Long, Close Look,” June 2]. What is disturbing is not the banality of Warhol’s work. Modern art forms, even if they only deserve to be called “expression,” […]
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Death of a Cell-Man
SCHUMACHER Playwrights’ Center In the opening scene of this play, Schumacher presents a short seminar on salesmanship. The phrase “Make that big sale!” is projected overhead, along with Schumacher’s five steps for doing just that: contact, introduce, match/mirror, sell more, and close. Let’s take these one at a time, shall we? Contact. Pick up the […]
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On Exhibit: Fred Johnson’s banner career
Fred Johnson likes to tell stories, and one of his best is about a building he used to work in. Back in 1941, Johnson’s employer, O. Henry Tent and Awning, moved from the corner of Wilson and Clark to bigger headquarters a few blocks away. For Johnson, who painted circus-sideshow banners, this was good news: […]
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The Bishop Speaks
To the editors: I was appalled by the inflammatory and obscene letter which appeared in your July 7 edition of the Reader, allegedly written by a “longtime employee of the Diocese of Chicago.” The fact that you would print an anonymous letter is, in my mind, a dubious editorial practice. Let me suggest that the […]
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On Money and Mental Health
Clinical social workers are fighting psychiatrists and psychologists for a piece of the insurance-reimbursement pie.
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An Evening of Cheever
AN EVENING OF CHEEVER Windy City Theater Company at Pilsen East Center for the Arts You’d never know from the Windy City Theater Company’s show that John Cheever was one of the great short-story writers of this century. All of his cleverness, all of his wit, all of his grace–everything that made his stories wonderful […]