To the Editor: Bernard Holland's fulminations on the showing off in which pianists increasingly engage are long overdue.
But this week Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie concert venue put an end to the embarrassment of a nation increasingly concerned about several overdue and over-budget infrastructure projects undermining its reputation for efficiency and engineering prowess.
Senators Dianne Feinstein, D-CA, and Richard Burr, R-NC, have threatened to introduce a proposal along those lines, which would place millions of people at risk, overlook several key facts, and resign a need for long overdue — and increasingly vital — transparency into law enforcement excesses.
However, with adversity has increasingly come a long-overdue acknowledgement that theatre must change how it operates and shares resources, redefine who it works with and where and how, and rethink what it can do with space and place.
Those course corrections are long overdue, and are increasingly critical to get right, as this new data shows.
With his 2007 victory on "Dancing With the Stars" looking increasingly like a career highlight, Helio Castroneves was overdue for some on-track success.
Two of theatre's biggest directors, Stephen Daldry, who directed the Paralympic Games opening ceremony, and Rufus Norris, said recognition was long overdue and coincided with theatre becoming increasingly physical.
It's the only way we're going to have an overdue debate about the ways in which public office is increasingly becoming the preserve of the wealthy.
Pay raises are long overdue for New York's judiciary, which has maintained its longstanding excellence even in the face of staggering caseloads and increasingly complex legal issues ("Upgrading New York's Courts," editorial, March 11).
