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Definitely the most obscure piece of the concert was Martin's "Memorial to Lidice." Written in dedication to the town of Lidice near Prague, the atrocities recounted in Martin's short eight minute tribute point to an event that was, as stated by the program notes, the "sharpest and most damning description ever drawn of the nature of Nazism." The town's crime: supposed involvement in the killing of SS Upper Group Leader Reinhard Heydrich. Their punishment: "all male citizens of the town were shot...The township was leveled to the ground and the name of the community extinguished." Blacklisted...
...BEAVERS Beavers destroy Washington cherry trees, proving who really has the sharpest teeth in town...
...sharpest change in the President's defense last week was that after months of arguing the merits, the White House lawyers finally argued the facts--and that decision was pure Clinton. In the House proceedings, his team buried the evidence deep in their legal briefs, arguing in their rare public comments that the offenses, even if true, did not warrant impeachment. But once the prospect of a trial became real--and the President's lawyers got the time to make a variety of arguments--the direction of the defense came from Clinton himself. Lawyers Charles Ruff and David Kendall kept...
...goes in Distraction (Bantam; $23.95), the latest novel from Bruce Sterling, one of America's best-known science-fiction writers and perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre...
...years Alessandrini has been having his cream pie and throwing it too. Subverting Broadway's hit tunes with wickedly irreverent parody lyrics, he has created a series of satirical revues that skewer musical theater. This latest edition is one of his sharpest yet. Here, a protean cast of four derides Disney's Lion King in The Circle of Mice. Footloose? Screwloose. Best of all is Alessandrini's new take on the decade-old Les Mis, which offers up dread-inspiring thoughts in the number Ten Years More. Even Victor Hugo would chuckle...