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...said the text of the letter was composed by a core group of five tutors. After sending a draft of the letter by e-mail to larger pool of tutors, he said the initial group worked to incorporate a series of suggestions proposed by the larger group into the final draft...
...catch that, Mr. Clinton? With a captive audience watching on CNN, Ken Starr took a timely historical tour of Watergate and other court battles that presidents have lost. On the surface, it was a snoozer: Executive Privilege 101. But pick apart the professorial text, and you get Starr's most savage attack on the President to date. Take the ending: "No one, absolutely no one, is above the law." Technically, a quote from Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski, but also the exact words Newt Gingrich has spent the last week crafting into a rallying cry for the right. Was Starr trying...
...while performers may distract themselves with technical and aesthetic tasks, audiences have a more difficult time. Unlike instrumental pieces in which the drama is abstract, the St. John Passion has at its center a highly problematic text, simultaneously sacred and offensive. The audience member, whether he or she is Christian or simply wishes to enjoy the tradition of the Passion story at Easter time, is frustrated by the impossibility of sympathizing with the tragedy of the Passion without sympathizing also with the textual culpability of the Jews. And those who do not attend may be frustrated that it is received...
...would anybody choose to stage this play in this first place? Well, evidently because it's possible to have a lot of fun with it. Without the calcifying weight of canonical adulation weighing you down, you can take the interpretation in any direction you please. And if the text is, by consensus, total crap to begin with--well, then, elaborating on it couldn't possibly hurt...
...passes lumbering lines like, "There is certainly no purpose in remaining in the dark / Except long enough to clear from the mind / The illusion of having ever been in the light," through the head of a pin, completely self-assured. Soudavar's character comes closest to illuminating Eliot's text, but the volume and immutability of his pronouncements only thwart attempts at a comprehensive interpretation. Ultimately, the audience feels left out in the cold, unable to identify with the "Unidentified Guest...