hettel.qxd Nick Green’s misapprehension of the controversial Warhawks and Lindberghs [Section Two, May 15] begins with his neglect to read the play’s title. WarHawks and Lindberghs deals with Anne Morrow Lindbergh as much as it does with her husband. Mr. Green’s sexist suppression of the crucial female role in the story is typical of the […]
Tag: Vol. 27 No. 36
Issue of Jun. 11 – 17, 1998
Posted inNews & Politics
The Right Man?
Is Leo Strauss the secret force responsible for Regan, Gingrich, the Christian Coalition, and the Contract With America?
Posted inNews & Politics
News of the Weird
Lead Stories While cigarette ads a la Joe Camel lose favor in the U.S., ad campaigns in other countries are stepping up their use of potentially sensitive images, according to an April San Francisco Examiner report. A Marlboro ad in Cambodia features girls around eight years old; in Poland the backdrop of a Camel ad […]
Posted inNews & Politics
What a Farce
lueders.qxd To Dave Kehr: Kudos for blowing the lid off the farce that is Caddyshack (Reader, April 17, Section Two)! For years, I have been trying to pinpoint everything that has been wrong with this thinly veiled attempt at social commentary in the early 1980s, yet in one fell swoop, you solved the riddle. Harold […]
Posted inMusic
Gebhard Ullmann’s Ta Lam Zehn
GEBHARD ULLMANN’S TA LAM ZEHN The all-reed format has pretty well lost its novelty value–over the last couple of decades sax quartet after sax quartet has made insightful investigations of pure timbre, harmony, and counterpoint. Still, there’s something intriguing–freakish, even–about Gebhard Ullmann’s Ta Lam Zehn, a tentet with nine reed players and a lone accordionist. […]
Posted inArts & Culture
What a Fool Believes
Penn & Teller at the Shubert Theatre, through June 14 By Carol Burbank Penn and Teller are the medicine-show con men of our time, their snake-oil trickery modified for the stage, big screen, and TV. Like their frontier counterparts, they feed on Americans’ need to believe we know it all while satisfying our inexhaustible craving […]
Posted inNews & Politics
Ed Gold Mean and Useless
weiner I have to ask, Where did you get Ed Gold? First he comes up with his “let’s make fun of Bob Greene” column, which was (the two times I read it) more insipid than any dreck Bob Greene could muster. And then you print his “let’s make fun of stupid books” column. Yes, there […]
Posted inMusic
Claude Williams
CLAUDE WILLIAMS In his prime–that is, back in his halcyon days as a septuagenarian– you could hardly find a more delightful, slyly rambunctious jazz presence than Claude “Fiddler” Williams. You could hardly find any recordings by him, either, which left audiences largely unprepared for his impish high spirits, but that’s changed with the release of […]
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Reader to Reader
We were awakened in the middle of the night by somebody yelling obscenities on the street below our bedroom window. “I can’t fucking believe it! That fucking bitch did it! She really did it!” A young guy was gesticulating wildly to a couple of his friends to come look at his car–all four tires had […]
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Spilt Milk
wright.qxd [Re: “There Goes Their Neighborhood,” May 29] It took 30 years for black and poor people in the CHA (and other projects) to realize they are dispensable? You described the CHA as “their homes.” “They” don’t own anything. They didn’t buy anything. Home owners are people who buy property and land and pay property […]
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Hidden Depths
Alien Hand, or Let the Right Be a Vision of the Left Trap Door Theatre By Albert Williams One of the biggest hits of the 1940-’41 Broadway season, the musical Lady in the Dark, was also an artistic landmark. This singular collaboration by three major talents–playwright-director Moss Hart, composer Kurt Weill, and lyricist Ira Gershwin […]
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Savage Love
Hey, Everybody: Last week, at Been There’s request, we heard from women on the subjects of (1) men coming on women’s faces, and (2) which tastes better, come or pussy juice? This week, at my request, we’re hearing from men regarding coming on women’s faces. For some reason, the letters women sent me on this […]
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Jumping Off the Train
Jumping off the Train is Prohibited: And Other Stories, Open Eye Productions and the Tightrope Collective, at Stage Left Theatre. An episodic show conceived by young players following the usual improv-comedy demographics that purports to “communicate…the ways in which the living, breathing city affects us” would normally be an invitation to the shrill delivery of […]
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Dance Notes: keeping the Movable Beast alive
Rebecca Rossen seems to have Frankenstein’s monster in mind as she describes the festival she’s organized with fellow choreographer and dancer Asimina Chremos: “It reminds me of a horror film. You have this creature–it sounds like it’s going to be great, despite all the horrible conditions of its birth. You want to harness it, but […]
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Sports Section
Here’s why the Bulls are the greatest basketball team of all time–the element overlooked by all those experts who are forever pointing out matchup problems they’d have had with the mid-80s Boston Celtics or Los Angeles Lakers, or with the early 70s Lakers or the 60s Celtics. The Bulls find a way to take opponents […]