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STALKERS AND TALKERS.(Assassins)(Jumpers)(Theater Review)

The New Yorker

| May 03, 2004 | Lahr, John | COPYRIGHT 2004 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Ever since Homo sapiens put down their clubs and started fighting one another with property, the vocabulary of murder has been inseparable from capitalism's bravado of success. "Making a killing," "killer instinct," "going for the kill," and "getting away with murder" are shibboleths of the psychopathic style that our entrepreneurial culture applauds and rewards. The sweepstakes of American competition spurs some to greatness; it drives others crazy. At least, that is the story to which Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman are sticking in their vaudeville of vindictiveness, "Assassins" (in revival in a Roundabout Theatre Company production at Studio 54, under the elegant ...

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