To the editors: This is in response to the review of The Absolute Truth, at the Puszh Studios, by Justin Hayford in the August 30 Reader. First let me say that the review was not wholly unfair and I’m not writing to whine about the beating we took at the expense of Mr. Hayford’s pen. […]
Tag: Vol. 20 No. 49
Issue of Sep. 19 – 25, 1991
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Uncle Lemon’s Spring/Features Creatures
UNCLE LEMON’S SPRING Lifeline Theatre FEATURES CREATURES Players Workshop’s Children’s Theatre at the Second City Frank Galati’s acting is consistently inventive and smart. His directing is praised to heaven by the people who work for him. And his specialty–adapting literature to the stage–resulted in a sublime adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath for Steppenwolf that […]
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Catholics Anonymous
To the editors: The May 24 issue of the Reader headlined “The Sins of the Fathers” regarding “Pedophilia in the Priesthood” is an indication of the dysfunctional systems model operating in the institutional Roman Catholic Church, especially regarding issues of intimacy and human sexuality. I fear, though, that the plea and challenge your article presents […]
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The Straight Dope
Why is a football called a pigskin? –Ben Schwalb, Laurel, Maryland Because calling it a pig’s bladder, which is what it actually is (or was), is a bit too real even for football players. In the days before vulcanized rubber, animal bladders were easily obtained, more or less round, readily sealed and inflated, and reasonably […]
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Heavy Hypocrisy
To the editors: The letter from Dylan Posa printed in the August 9 Reader is all too typical of so-called “progressive music” advocates. They want more free and open musical expression on the radio; but only on their own terms. If it doesn’t fit their trendy, P.C. notions of what music should be, then they […]
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The City File
And now for all you appendectomy patients out there, here’s Mantovani playing the all-violin version of “Twist and Shout.” “The music helps reduce patients’ anxiety,” says Swedish Covenant Hospital chaplain Ruthanne Werner (in SCH’s Care Letter, Summer) of the hospital’s program offering headsets to patients before and during surgery. “Originally, we created a selection of […]
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Madonnamania
To the editors: Oh, that I might have the last word on la brouhaha Madonna [Letters, July 5, 12, and 19, and August 2, 9, 16, and 30]. But there is no last word because the woman has flicked an “ON” switch in our national psyche. Madonna is that baby wailing for constant attention in […]
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
The Chicago Symphony may be on strike, but it’s going through with this free concert in Grant Park celebrating “Daniel Barenboim Day,” named after the maestro charged with the daunting task of keeping the orchestra invigorated for its second century. Billed as the orchestra’s thanks to the people of Chicago for their first century of […]
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The Manly Art
I made these photographs on the evening of August 20, when the Chicago Park District held its annual boxing exhibition at Welles Park. I also recorded one coach’s instructions to his young boxer: A mile a minute, Ya gotta go out there, Come outta there like a street fighter. Listen to me. I am listening. […]
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The Peace Movement’s Real Agenda
To the editors: Harold Henderson’s article about the Peace Movement [August 9] said that they are in desperate search of a new strategy. I think the one place they haven’t looked is back at their own total lack of credibility. Every warning they made, every assurance they issued has been wrong so far. Why should […]
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Alfred Stieglitz Loves O’Keeffe/Line
ALFRED STIEGLITZ LOVES O’KEEFFE Bailiwick Repertory LINE Synergy Theatre Company at the Synergy Center The strangest bedfellows are the ones brought together by the call of art. Independence usually comes with the creative territory, but what makes for original art can wreak havoc on a relationship. If two artists have different temperaments, choose radically different […]
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Official Medical Philosophy of the NFL
To the editors: I just read James Beebe’s letter requesting support for the AMA and FDA and thrashing chiropractors [July 26]. I am now pain free from a back condition that had I stayed with orthopedic surgeons would eventually have resulted in surgery. There are millions like myself that have been helped. The last year […]
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Field & Street
Big-city ecosystems feature large populations of a very small number of species. Natural ecosystems, outside of a few very difficult environments that offer few niches, tend to move in the opposite direction. The natural tendency reaches its apotheosis in the tropical forest, where rarity is the common condition of a bewildering number of species. Big-city […]
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Love Films: A Cassavetes Retrospective
I have noticed that people who were loved or felt they were loved seemed to lead fuller, happier lives. All of my own work in theater and film has been concerned with varying themes of this love. A Woman of Mystery has to do with an unexplored segment of our society, referred to as the […]