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  Mr. Booth Goes to Washington - An actor prepares for hell

  It might be said that John Wilkes Booth was America's first political actor: Long before Paul Robeson, Jane Fonda and Warren Beatty - or, for that matter, before R.W. Reagan - Booth had carved his name into the national bark through one ideologically...

  by Steven Mikulan on June 18, 1998

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  Someone To Watch Over Me

  At first, I get paranoid: Does the tiny microphone attached to the roof near the rear-view mirror transmit everything I say? Is there a camera, too? Do they always know where I am? The two sales representatives who brought the vehicle to my office, a...

  by Judith Lewis on June 18, 1998

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  A Fluctuating Sameness

  Any entertainment that consists of two or more consecutive events under the same management qualifies as "festival" - from Bayreuth to Ojai - and the crowds come running. I'm not sure whether last week's "Resistance fluctuations," which was identifie...

  by Alan Rich on June 18, 1998

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  Heilman-C at ''The Warehouse''

  Heilman-C's one-night event, "Women Loving Women," consisted of the following elements: several bronze sculptures depicting an iconographic rendering of a female figure with large breasts (self-portraits, according to the artist), done in a gloppy, e...

  by Lisa Anne Auerbach on June 11, 1998

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  Nicole Eisenman at Shoshana Wayne

  When viewing Nicole Eisenman's immense amalgam of paintings, photographs, installations and works on paper, one can't help but recall Marcel Duchamp's explanation for his antics: "I wanted to amuse myself." Eisenman's witty works upend our culture's ...

  by Sue Spaid on June 11, 1998

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  Child's Play - Nicholson Baker enters a kid's head

  Tour de force was the phrase that kept popping up in my head as I wandered wide-eyed through The Everlasting Story of Nory, an extraordinary new novel in which Nicholson Baker blithely immerses us in the consciousness of the world's most charming 9-y...

  by Daniel Akst on June 11, 1998

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  Circumstantial Evidence - Larry Atlas' new play about moral eclipse

  When he was only 11, Paul Rosario took $240 he'd earned from his newspaper-delivery route and invested it in Comsat. "Not G.M., not even G.M. preferred," he explains to the audience in Larry Atlas' scintillating new play, Yield of the Long Bond, now ...

  by Steven Leigh Morris on June 11, 1998

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  For the Birds

  The crescent moon emerged in the sky over Ojai. The woodpeckers, at home in the huge sycamore to the right of the bandstand at Libbey Bowl, had finished feeding their newborn brats and chattered for a while about the day's delights; soon their song w...

  by Alan Rich on June 11, 1998

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  Fetal Positions - Wendy MacLeod's theater of debate

  THE WATER CHILDREN By WENDY MacLEOD At the MATRIX THEATER 7657 Melrose Ave. Through July 13 House of Yes, Wendy MacLeod's 1990 family satire that impishly combined incest and Kennedy-assassination lore, announced the arriva...

  by Steven Mikulan on June 4, 1998

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  Three for the Road

  Symphony orchestras, like fine wines, travel badly; yet travel they must. It's not enough, for both commodities, to garner fame and fortune in their own back yards. The Philadelphia Orchestra must also conquer audiences in Costa Mesa, as a superb Bur...

  by Alan Rich on June 4, 1998

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  Marry Me Before I Get Fat - Elizabeth Wurtzel wants to be bad, but not all by herself

  "I always make a distinction between what's accurate and what's true," says Elizabeth Wurtzel between giant sucking swallows of the night's special at Book Soup Bistro, soft-shell crab and Blue Lake beans. She eats the beans like a kid eating pas...

  by Judith Lewis on May 28, 1998

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  Razzle Shmazzle - Chicago hits town

  CHICAGO Book by FRED EBB & BOB FOSSE Music by JOHN KANDER Lyrics by FRED EBB At the AHMANSON THEATER 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown Through July 5 There are moments when Chicago, at the Ahmanson Theater, is so dazzling it in...

  by Steven Leigh Morris on May 28, 1998

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  Roll Over, Beethoven

  Interesting paradox: At a time of continued lamentation in certain unenlightened circles over the overdose of hardcore atrocities being foisted upon helpless local audiences, the past few weeks have seen more kindness extended to new music than to ...

  by Alan Rich on May 28, 1998

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  Hot Love - Sexual radicals bookend the century

  THE STORY OF MARY MacLANE & OTHER WRITINGS By MARY MacLANE Edited and introduced by Penelope Rosemont Charles H. Kerr Publishing Co. 217 pages$15 softcover THE EDGE OF THE BED: How Dirty Pictures Changed My Life By LISA PALAC L...

  by Carol Lynn Mithers on May 21, 1998

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  Mastery, Mastery

  So far, the Philharmonic's extraordinary celebration of Gyorgy Ligeti's music has concentrated on his work from the 1960s - the decade of assassinations, Vietnam, the Bay of Pigs, Cuban missiles and the walk on the moon. For Ligeti it was also the de...

  by Alan Rich on May 14, 1998

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  Monsieur Naturel - R. Crumb in France

  It's a dirty job, and no one has to do it. It's one o'clock on a rainy afternoon, and I'm standing on a bridge staring at the wet ramparts of a medieval village in the south of France, wondering what I'm doing here. Back in L.A., where this scheme...

  by Brendan Bernhard on May 7, 1998

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  Moscow on the Rhine - A German's homage to the Russian masters

  St. Petersburg has a lot of history with Germany. In 1914, with Russia soon to suffer defeat in World War I, the Russian capital was renamed Petrograd because St. Petersburg sounded too German. Ten years later, when the father of the Soviet Union die...

  by Daniel Akst on May 7, 1998

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  Monsieur Naturel (page 2) - R. Crumb in France

  Up in the room I was renting from Gail Wagman, I'd been looking at the latest volume of Crumb's sketchbooks, and there was one drawing I kept going back to. It showed a black man in profile, wearing a baseball cap and drinking from a paper cup with ...

  by Brendan Bernhard on May 7, 1998

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  Moving Violations - Art cars don't kill people. They just annoy them.

  They come at you like a hallucination, through a break in the camouflage of oncoming traffic. Yes, that did look like a van piggybacking some sort of parasitic insect the size of a Volkswagen. Every community, just about, has its own: could be a Ford...

  by Rev. Al Cacophony on May 7, 1998

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  Bet Noir - Patrick Marber's tale of lost wagers

  Gambling, at least as it exists in literature, is not just some juicy existential trope; it's a veritable watermelon of a metaphor. The gambler has long been regarded as a walking system of ethical self-definition, a person living for the moment and ...

  by Steven Mikulan on May 7, 1998