Sick of the restraints and paperwork imposed on them by insurance companies and HMOs, a surprising number of American MDs have begun to prescribe the Canadian cure.
Tag: Vol. 21 No. 45
Issue of Aug. 20 – 26, 1992
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Reading: Prisoners of Delusion
Vietnam POWs are a myth, argues H. Bruce Franklin–a myth that casts Americans as victims and thereby relieves our shame and guilt.
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A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot/The Dimmed Heart
Many young Chicago theater companies hope to compensate for deficiencies in acting and directing with brash, experimental styles. But Pentimento Pictures is not one of them. The members of this spin-off of Theatre of the Reconstruction have the wisdom and maturity to avoid all that. Their deft rendition of Tennessee Williams’s perfectly constructed short play, […]
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Mostly Mozart Orchestra
Gerard Schwarz, music director of both the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and the New York Chamber Symphony, is one of the few young American conductors who specialize in eloquent interpretations of works by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. A rigorous classicist in the mold of Bruno Walter, he knows how to shape a phrase and unfold the […]
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The Filmdome
THE FILMDOME Show Theatre Group at Victory Gardens Studio Improv theater can run the risk of becoming a semiprivate party, where audiences pay to watch actors play make-believe and hog all the fun. Audience requests represent an attempt to bridge that gulf; supposedly the suggestions give us a stake in the action. But in the […]
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Cold Heaven
Nicolas Roeg’s tenth feature–rather freely adapted by Allan Scott (who also produced) from a novel by Brian Moore–is characteristically portentous and provocative, beautifully edited and lyrically enigmatic. Roeg’s wife, Theresa Russell, who has starred in four other Roeg films, plays the adulterous wife of a doctor (Mark Harmon) having an affair with another doctor (James […]
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Waiting for Godot
WAITING FOR GODOT CT20 Ensemble at Cafe Voltaire It would be hard to imagine a place more hospitable to Samuel Beckett’s bleak worldview than the dark, gray, musty basement of Cafe Voltaire. Certainly the low ceiling, bare-bones lighting, and uneven concrete floor seem more congenial to Beckett’s work than some cheerful, clean, prosperous, expensively lit […]
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Exclusively in the Tribune/Family Values
Exclusively in the Tribune Publicists call us now and then to tout an author who’s coming to town. When we’re interested, we ask who else the author’s talking to here–we don’t want to give somebody space in our column a day after they show up in the dailies. If we’re still interested, we ask if […]
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Kill my program: at Loyola, a philosophical fight over “special” education
In 1974 the U.S. Comptroller General released a report that said 60 percent of American children with disabilities were not being appropriately educated and one million were being excluded entirely from the public school system. In 1975 the federal Education for All Handicapped Children Act was passed. It guaranteed a “free and appropriate public education” […]
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Grant Park Symphony Orchestra
The Grant Park Music Festival concludes its season with an intriguinmg sampler of unjustly neglected works by Latin composers. Brazil is represented by Heitor Villa-Lobos, whose Cello Concerto no. 1 sounds like Tchaikovsky but with a fiery Latin beat. Zesty dances from Alberto Ginastera’s ballet Estancia depict ranch life in Argentina. But the best represented […]
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A Postcard From Chee-Ka–Go
He was about 12, a dark-skinned Indian boy with bright, intelligent eyes. “You must be very rich,” he said. “Tell me about Chicago.”
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Native Speech/The Great American Cheese Sandwich
NATIVE SPEECH Tight & Shiny Productions at At the Gallery-Chopin Theatre As much as I like Eric Overmyer’s Native Speech, I can’t imagine a successful production of this impossibly dense script, about an underground DJ and the deteriorating world of junkies, prostitutes, and thugs he inhabits. It’s packed with seemingly endless hip jargon, and not […]
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James Kelly Choreography Project
JAMES KELLY CHOREOGRAPHY PROJECT at the Ruth Page Theatre July 31 and August 1 Jazz dance often gets a bad rap for having too much razzmatazz and not enough substance. The images that come to mind are of sexy, muscular bodies, suggestively costumed, shifting a rib cage here, gyrating a hip there. Certain moments–maybe a […]