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Cyrus M. Sanai
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Like a Bat Out of Hell
M ANY OF God's creatures are built for speed: The lean and hungry cheetah. The soaring spine-tailed swift. And let
Teaching and Doing
T HERE WAS ONCE a time when being a writing teacher fell under the old aphorism that "Those who can't
The Good Woman of Serban
W HEN IT CAME to raping and pillaging the works of others, no 20th-century playwright could hold a candle to
Brain-Addled Air Junkies
H EY YOU!" I froze. This was the most terrifying sound a struggling writer could hear, the voice of sadism,
Harvard Theater
Writtem by Brian Friel Directed by Ben Evett At the Adams House Kronauer Space Tonight through Monday W HAT'S HOT
On Opera:
W HY IS IT that when Americans go to the opera they look like they are at death's door? Perhaps
STAGE
Sweettable at the Richilieu at the American Repertory Theatre directed by Andrei Serban S WEETTABLE AT THE RICHILIEU is the
BLOW-UPS:
A BOUT HALF-WAY through Arthur Kopit's nuclear war comedy End of the World with Symposium to Follow the protagonist, who
A Writer in Writer's Clothing
Mary Robison, critically acclaimed author and Briggs Copeland Assistant Professor in English, met her present spouse, James, when he "offered
Inter-Stella Space
Working Space By Frank Stella Harvard University Press; $14.95; 167 pages. F RANK STELLA IS the Daniel Boone of the
The Lords of Discipline
T HE RUMOR spread from one den of undergraduate iniquity to another, from the decadent pleasure parlors of Westmorely Court
Drama Critics Critiqued; More 'Advocacy' Needed
At a time when non-profit theaters are eclipsing the marquees of Broadway, theater critics must become strong advocates of the
Of Max Headroom and Kurosawa
Ran By Akira Kurosawa Shambhala; 112 pages; $19.95. Max Headroom: 20 minutes into the future By Steve Roberts Vintage; $5.95.
Dazed and Confused
W E WERE WAITING at a stoplight in Central Square when I noticed two women in long formal gowns waving
Art for Art's Sake
T HEY WANTED to tell me about atrocities. They wanted to tell me about repression, of Jews, Christians, Estonians, Poles,
