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Strip Polka
As actors in the theater of postindustrial economy, we're all called upon to do a little song and dance to conceal the roots of our collective pathos. We're all...
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When boozy lounge lizard Kiki reels into a room, she's this close to a nervous breakdown. Kiki— now appearing in Do You Hear What We Hear? at P.S. 122— is the...
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Twenty-foot tall, papier-mâché puppets can do no wrong. Let them recite stilted dialogue, let their movement vocabulary be limited to a
shuffle and wave, let...
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All great plays, they say, are about love— the countless ways people care for each other, and the equally countless terrible things they do to, by, for, with, or at each...
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The new Philip GlassRobert Wilson collaboration, Monsters of Grace (BAM), is an important experiment in virtual theater. A computer-animated 70mm film visible only...
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Revenge of the Mad Reader
In Peter Noel's article "Revenge of the Mad Rappers" [December 1], his main concern seems to be the conflicts between people in hip hop.
Not...
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The new Brady law went into effect last week, requiring a background check for anyone purchasing a firearm. But both the NRA and gun-control advocacy groups are dissatisfied...
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It's the height of what the financial pages call the fourth quarter, and despite their outward confidence fancy retailers are plenty jittery: Could this be Dow Jones's last...
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Gift books, especially photographic ones, should be about pleasure—about that delicate balance of sensual and intellectual stimulation you'll find nowhere else but in the...
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On October 26, for the first time in a long time, Darlene Margeta went to bed with her mind at ease. Earlier that day, police had arrested her landlord, 67-year-old Zenon...
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As federal agents watched from surveillance posts earlier this year, the smugglers off-loaded the contraband from a rickety boat and
onto a dingy pier in Edgewater, New...
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As a boy, Ron Athey practiced Christianity in extremis, and it helped make him the tattooed purveyor of spectacular and disturbing rituals that he is today.
Athey is still...
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Emily Prawda (Communication Coordinator, School of Visual Arts; Part-Time Bookseller, Barnes & Noble)
Income: $27,000 (1998)
Health Insurance: covered by employer
Rent:...
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It was taxi driver Jaswant Singh's turn to ride in the white stretch limo.
Thick gold trim hanging from his hot pink turban framed Jaswant's face as the 20-year-old groom...
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Sex-Crazed Welfare Mothers Hijack Space Shuttle
>> A rowdy new class of genetic engineers will arise. They'll have little interest in creating oil spill–eating bacteria,...
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Madison Avenue between 124th and 126th streets is part of "the new, new Harlem Renaissance." The avenue cuts a wide swath across 125th Street, where Elvy Simon's Flavored With...
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Many people think it's the single greatest victory in AIDS: Giving the drug AZT to pregnant women halves the chance that they will pass on the virus to their newborns. It's...
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In the shadow of the Second World War, Jean-Paul Sartre wrote No Exit, a scathing drama in which three souls are trapped for eternity in a room with no place to hide from one...
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When visitors check out the new Interscope Records site (interscope-records.com), which launched Monday, their eyes will likely jump immediately to the item on the right-hand...
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Soon after the murder of Matthew Shepard, hundreds of mourners held a vigil in Washington. Chanting "Now! Now! Now!" they demanded that Congress pass the Schumer-Kennedy...
