PARIS — The opera world is awash in Wagner and Verdi this year, leaving only a bit of the summer spotlight for new productions.
When I was 10 years old in 1949 I read a good bit of the 1928 edition of "Williams' Obstetrics" from my physician father's library.
Like a lot of Europeans, they take quite a bit of the summer off, so tourists in search of equine entertainment are better off coming to New York.
A bit of the 1998 supply might be on the market this year, as well, said Jeffrey W. Lacina, a spokesman for Garst, which is based in Slater, Iowa.
McFarland, USA reminds one a bit of the 1979 coming-of-age/social class sports drama Breaking Away, whose team of stonemason "cutters" echo the day-labouring "pickers".
I remember American Beauty was on, Fight Club was on…" Ah, that halcyon bit of the 1990s when Hollywood started getting good again.
Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie St. Sparely staged but unrelentingly verbose, Christopher Ford and Dakota Rose's comedy "The White Stag Quadrilogy," now at Dixon Place, aims to send up 1970s Hollywood (and a bit of the 1980s), but succeeds largely in skewering itself.
Under the proposed financial-reform legislation making its way through the Senate, the bit of the 1958 bill saying "except onions" would be amended to read "except onions and motion picture box office receipts".
Stuffing, in my family's opinion anyway, is the very best bit of the Christmas feast; the turkey carving is always carefully supervised, lest any goes astray before it makes it to the table.
In fact, despite spending a fair bit of the last 16 years thinking about what it means to be a mother, I still feel like you could fit my conclusions about this whole motherhood business on the back of an envelope.
