Once again, the shadow of the one GOP candidate who was not there loomed over the dismal proceedings.
The inaccuracies are so numerous and glaring that an entire film could be made to document its errors alone.
The unpopular exercise among the non-Trump candidates has been wearying.
The passion is palpable, but there is a smallness to the sets that cools the fire in the characters’ souls.
At home, Biden is unpopular, assailed by legal difficulties, and widely regarded as too physically and mentally incompetent to do his job.
With a commanding lead in the polls, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump had no realistic need to participate in or even take notice of his party’s latest presidential debate.
The recital left the overall impression of a solid and earnest singer with strong ambitions that may well be fulfilled in the march of time.
With each embarrassment outdoing the last, the next fourteen months could well overshadow Biden’s lackluster UN performance. In the end, however, it is America and its people who will be diminished.
The climactic moment of Donald Trump’s indictments is helping him return to the presidency.
The candidates looked more like contestants on Trump’s business reality television program The Apprentice than serious alternative contenders for the highest office in the land.
Following an unfortunate trend in European stage production, Warlikowski reduces Macbeth to a psychiatric diagnosis, with the characters exploring their pathologies in the confines of a mental institution.
Rigoletto has “all the characteristics of a perfect film noir”— seduction, murder, anonymous identities, spooky nocturnal settings, casual violence, unapologetic brutality, and, when done right, some dark humor.
