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...main complaint about Big Deal is that for every element that is new, there is something old, something borrowed and something very blue. The plot, about an amiable gang of two-bit black crooks trying to burgle a Chicago pawnshop, is adapted from a 1958 Italian film, Big Deal on Madonna Street. Fosse, who wrote the book, stubbornly resisted advice to simplify the narrative, prune out tasteless jokes involving a urinal and a simulated oral- sex act, add more dance and brighten what he admitted was a "melancholy" ending. The score, too, is recycled: standards from...
...second--about both of these things, and I suspect he has no experience and little knowledge of either of them. It might have been interesting to consult those who can speak to the subject of commuting with real authority because it is, as you say, a common element in many academic marriages...
...THERE WAS another, more insidious element. The report concludes that police fired on Move members trying to flee the blazing building. They were caught between fire and gunfire. As one member of the committee said, "It's not human to run back into a raging inferno." For Move, it was not a question of surrender...
...Ailey American Dance Theater's engagement in Boston this week. In his introduction to "In the Black Tradition," Ailey discussed the use of music and choreography to explore and celebrate Black experience in America. Despite their technical finesse, the four works of this opening-night performance lacked the emotional element of a typical Ailey program...
...they use this judgment to dismiss those students with serious non-sports interests. Do you care about academics? Those who support a women's studies concentration, like those who supported an Afro-American Studies department two decades ago, are thought to be out of their element. Do you care about investment policy? Again, such students are often ignored with smug complacency...