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...Except there is no stage--anyway, not a stable floor. Instead, a void, out of which some ethereal miracles materialize. Many of them take place on two huge surfaces: a 1,250-sq.-ft., 175-ton slab (known as the sand-cliff deck) and a smaller one (the 900-sq.-ft., 40-ton tatami deck) that can simultaneously lift, rotate and tilt. Thus the actors must perform many of their maneuvers while the earth is literally moving under their feet. (If they fall off, there's a 60-ft. drop out of sight and onto an airbag.) Other scenes occur...
Quincy would not be the first to enact such restrictions: Adams House banned freshmen from its dining hall altogether last March—except as guests—and keeps strictly-enforced hours on other visitors. Eliot, Kirkland, Leverett, Winthrop, and Lowell Houses have restrictions at dinner...
...restored in the U.S. military, our forces must be used for the defense of this country, not for the personal goals of the President. U.S. troops belong on U.S. soil, not stationed in 135 different countries. There is no justification for U.S. soldiers serving in other countries, except for a U.N.-sponsored peacekeeping mission...
...comedian-host, were expected to pretend some interest in high culture; and the last 30 years, when those same custodians of taste were allowed, commanded, to express no interest. Readers of a certain age can recall when every New York Times music critic was writing about classical music, except for the guy on the jazz beat, and when opera divas graced the cover of TIME. (No rock performers were cover boys until the Beatles in 1967.) Now neither TIME nor Newsweek has a classical music critic, because neither magazine believes it has a need for one. They're just flying...
...frail. He?s in the process of finalizing his fourth divorce. Gone is the kente cloth and other African garb from his previous comeback to politics, replaced by dark slacks, a derby hat and a gray beard. Besides his drug and alcohol addictions, which Barry won?t talk about except to say he attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, he also suffers from high blood pressure, diabetes and prostate cancer. ?I don?t have health problems, I have health issues,? he snaps. And he?s also tired of talking about his past. ?You hardly hear anything about Bill Clinton or Robert Downey...