appelo

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Bush/Nixon and the battle for the bottom

Posted Thu, Dec 11, 12:31 p.m.

Forget Woodward's wooden insights, the bio you want is Jacob Weisberg's The Bush Tragedy. Not empty at all, and anything but tedious. At least as interesting a psyche as Nixon's, though not as fine a mind. Not that Bush is dumb, as Molly Ivins reminds us. Simply not willing to ...

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Stephen Sondheim's most-produced musical, somewhat defanged

Posted Fri, Nov 9, 11:20 a.m.

The definitive review of this show: Bravo!

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Ted Roethke, master poet and teacher, fully reborn in ACT world premiere

Posted Fri, Aug 10, 11:06 a.m.

Author! Author!: This has got to be the most well-informed review this play will ever get. But we need to hear more from that class notebook--much more, please. Mine it for a critical essay. Or put the whole thing on the web and we'll all wiki it--

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Is Seattle a 'two-dollar whore'?

Posted Wed, Jul 25, 4:58 p.m.

Seattle is not a two-dollar whore: It's a high-priced, high-IQ, highly resentful call girl, like Sigourney Weaver in Half Moon Street.

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