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...adding both context and detail to that story let me admit that I am a friend of the museum: I have chaired committees for two of the museum's most splendid exhibitions ("Judaica from the Vatican Library" and "The Silver Calf from Ashkelon") and was a member of the committee for a third ("The City of David: Discoveries from the Excavations"). I acquired for the museum the photographs by the rediscovered 19th century photographer M.J. Diness now on exhibit until December 18. My bias for these undertakings notwithstanding, the facts are the facts...
...respond. He introduced his family (including his grandson, who promptly fell asleep) and then declared, "Charges have been made about my beliefs and activities which are simply false. They are, in some cases, made up out of whole cloth; in others, they result from wrenching sentences out of context and building tales around them...
...gone, has been set in the jazz age and augmented with music by Duke Ellington. The semimodern dress and judicious pruning of the most convoluted language makes the text accessible, and its cynicism about the rich is timeless. But the play's rage depends in large part on the context of classical notions about the sacred nature of hospitality. These ideas of mutual obligation, almost unto ruin, were antique in Shakespeare's day, and are alien to our own. Thus Bedford wisely plays the extravagant Timon as a bit of a buffoon, easily gulled, while his fair-weather friends...
...Paul Tsongas on the highroad and Gennifer Flowers on the low, Bill Clinton is doing phone interviews in a hotel room, struggling to keep his presidential hopes alive in the New Hampshire primary. Finishing his chores with the press ("Betcha I said something you can take out of context," he observes wearily), Clinton wanders over to a table where staffers are discussing their image as reported in the press. He claps James Carville, his chief political strategist, on the shoulder and says, "You weird guys gotta stick together...
...freedom of access bill fails to provide clear answers to these questions, even though the U.S. Supreme Court, in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware, ruled that government must exercise "precision of regulation" in its prohibition of illegal activities "when such conduct occurs in the context of constitutionally protected activity...