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...pair of hard-to-get tickets may have once been a mark of theatergoing dedication. But increasingly, it is merely a sign that you are behind the times. The old-fashioned box office has, by and large, gone the way of the pinball machine and the flesh-and-blood bank teller: computers have moved in. Today ordering tickets for everything from Broadway shows to a Styx concert often requires nothing more arduous than picking up the phone and reading numbers off a credit card...
...Wagnerian of fiery voice and passionate temperament. At the Metropolitan Opera last week, the German soprano solidified that reputation in Tristan und Isolde, harnessing the mercurial spirit of the Irish princess to a voice of raw, almost primal urgency in a finely calibrated, carefully nuanced reading that gave flesh and blood to a mythical archetype. Says Behrens: "I want to make music in its logical context. I sing the beautiful parts as beautifully as I can, and if the character is screaming, I make it ugly. If the voice is just big and loud and doesn't have texture...
...alcoholism, mental illness they point to warnings by psychiatrists and sociologists that the consequences of these trends will be "ominous" and "dire" for the children growing up-in these broken homes. And when Mary Robison is not teaching English C at Harvard, she has made it her business to flesh out those troubling statistics in carefully crafted vignettes of family dynamics; what would happen to Holden Caulfield today, if he were in his early twenties...
...edition of the prophecies of Nostradamus, "receded by computer" to give the requisite scientific gloss, has recently sold more than 100,000 copies in Europe. In every epoch of social confusion, concludes this entertaining history of folly, "the show goes on. The spirits are willing, and the flesh is weak.'' -By Stefan Kanfer
...more to appeal to in a teenage film than hormones. Risks Business exhibited promise beyond the usual hackneyed dialogue and childish antics, to which teenage audiences are so accustomed. Its well-developed fantasy motif, more importantly, indicated that producers finally may be getting away from the temptation of marketing flesh for flesh's sake...