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Tag: Vol. 19 No. 15
Issue of Jan. 25 – 31, 1990
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The Learned Ladies
THE LEARNED LADIES Commons Theatre It must have been the weather forecast for Friday night: snow and sleet. There’s no other excuse for the poor attendance at Commons Theatre’s production of Moliere’s Learned Ladies. Thirty people, in a house designed to hold over a hundred, is disgraceful. Especially for this fresh, sprightly production of a […]
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Polkow’s Perfidious Prevarication
To the editors: Well, it took me a while, but I finally dug it up: proof positive of Polkow’s perfidious prevarication in the public prints. When we last saw our hero, he was accusing one Susan Johnson of N. Sheridan of not having read his review of bass Dimitri Kavrakos [Letters, November 17],. but only […]
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Sexual Triangle
XSIGHT! PERFORMANCE GROUP at Marjorie Ward Marshall Dance Center of Northwestern University January 19, 20, 26, and 27 Xsight! Performance Group, appearing at Northwestern in what was essentially a college exhibition, had their young audience firmly in hand–alternately laughing, puzzled, and charmed. And they did it despite a minuscule stage with a horribly awkward entrance […]
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Department of Crass Whorish Commercialism
To the editors: Although the socio-economic climate which served as catalyst, incubator, and motivator for alternative newspapers similar to the Reader has changed, never-the-less, the essential need for moral integrity should definitely be maintained, both in practice and in principle. Unfortunately, the inspired principals who first founded the Reader have lost the vision and consequently […]
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Breaking the Code
BREAKING THE CODE Interplay “That’s the way of the world,” says Alan Turing in Hugh Whitemore’s biographical drama Breaking the Code. “One never seems to hear of the really great mathematicians.” True enough, for a very simple reason: few writers of books, plays, or movies have been able to make an intellectual “sexy” enough, as […]
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Dangers of Liberal Education, Part II
To the editors: As the Subject of a jab in The City File of 11/10/89, I have to point out that Mr. Henderson is wrong on three counts. First, he labels the item “Dangers of Liberal Education.” The information which led to the quote Mr. Henderson cited came from a news radio or network TV […]
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The Straight Dope
My friends and I adore your column and read it every week before the festivities begin at Captain White’s Oyster Bar and Clog Palace. Recently we were discussing a word we’ve all heard but have never seen in print. It’s pronounced “skosh” (long “o”). Whenever I ask somebody to spell it, they always say, “you […]
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Don’t Apologize!
To the editors: “As much as we hate to grind one ax two weeks in a row,” Michael Miner said apologetically in “Trial by Georgie” [Hot Type, January 12], “we feel compelled to respond to last Sunday’s column by Clarence Page.” Pardon me for mentioning it, but I thought Michael Miner was a media critic? […]
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The City File
They have such nice pictures in them, don’t you think? Richard Sax in a recent Distinctive Taste newsletter: “Americans sit down less and less to a meal at home. Yet, there are more cookbooks being published than ever–600 to 800 new titles each year.” The problem, as described by Patrick Barry in Chicago Enterprise (January […]
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Baby Pictures
To the editors: I was one of the 27 pro-life activists who took part in the demonstration at Ditka’s restaurant on Saturday, November 11. I would like to respond to some of the questions that came up in the article “Demonstration at Ditka’s” [Our Town, November 17]. The term “aborted fetus,” which Achy Obejas used […]
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Diane Delin
Evanston-based young jazz violinist Diane Delin created quite an unexpected stir at last summer’s Grant Park Jazz Festival with her solid technique and crisp improvisations. Delin has avoided the more avant-garde and fusion-oriented jazz violin sound so popular in recent years for a return to a more lyrical style emphasizing beautiful tone, but with such […]
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Listen to My Song: Kurt Weill’s Theater Music
LISTEN TO MY SONG: KURT WEILL’S THEATER MUSIC National Jewish Theater Stripped-down concept revues, in which only the setting connects the songs, seek to highlight a composer’s attitudes and preoccupations. Flexible and uneditorializing, they efficiently collect their songs into a show that refuses to impose a chronological, biographical, or thematic grid. Such shows, which have […]
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Sheer Lunacy
LOVE ME Cardiff Giant at Angel Island You would be hard-pressed to find four more talented actors than those in Cardiff Giant’s original comedy, Love Me. Laura T. Fisher, Scott Hermes, Mark Ray Hollmann, and Greg Kotis (who together also wrote Love Me, along with director John Hildreth) turn a structurally weak play into a […]