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The WSJ says it's very unlikely Starr will bring criminal charges against President Clinton while he's in office, but that he will probably dump the matter into Congress' lap as a potential impeachment case, thus plunging the country into a "wrenching political dilemma" given the president's surging popularity.
They say wrenching portrayals by Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley set "a new standard for crackerjack Broadway teamwork" (Ben Brantley, the New York Times ). Others call the score, by Dreamgirls writer Henry Krieger, un-catchy and uneven.
The show is arranged in a manner to do just that, though with a resulting wrenching of chronology and little attention to Soutine's life.
Highlights: The magazine excerpts the wrenching diary of Victor Klemperer, a Jew who managed to survive World War II in Dresden, Germany.
But nor do I think some wrenching social and economic difficulties in a still-nascent constitutional democracy are comparable to forced starvations, reigns of terror, and the Gulag.