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...chilly March day, the sky ash colored, moist with drizzle. Outside the Washington Hilton Hotel sat a long line of black cars and military vehicles, a commonplace scene in the nation's capital. At about two o'clock, the President of the U.S. walked out from his scheduled appearance there--a slot on his calendar, nothing unusual in the life of a President. He turned, smiled, waved to the gathered crowd, squinting a little even though the day was dull, maybe to see better because he's nearsighted and didn't always wear his contact lenses. Then came the gunshots...
...investigators broke into St. James Episcopal Cemetery with the help of a Georgia state cop who picked the lock on the gate. The Boulder detectives then planted a hidden microphone and camera a few feet from JonBenet's resting place. For three days, they mounted round-the-clock surveillance from the window of a nearby high school, hoping to overhear a graveside confession from one of the many mourners who trooped by. But the effort netted little more than curious gawkers--and a salesman who signed up an elderly couple for a nearby burial plot...
...Alexander herself that the American educational system tries to kill though an unnameable suffocation. And lest we think America has moved beyond such quietly murderous systems of racism, at least in its highest and most enlightened institutions, Stern places prominently in the very center of the set a clock that tells the correct time as the performance progresses. The real violence in Kennedy's play is as present now as it was in the 1950s of the play's narrative. It is still as present and as unrecognized...
wild shots up as the "shot clock" expires, looking to "score...
Among them are new forms of storytelling. Blindspot by Darcy Steinke is a multimedia tale about a nervous young mom taking care of her baby one night while she waits for her philandering husband to come home. As the story unfolds, you can hear her clock strike midnight, read meandering asides about her paranoid fears of an intruder and see the floor plan of her apartment slowly revealed onscreen. More ambitious narratives, such as Grammatron by Mark Amerika, which tackles everything from Cabala to virtual sex, come across as pretentious, thanks to lines like, "I ask of writing what...