I had to get myself to the suburbs this morning to take my car to the shop. On my way back to the city via the Metra, I picked up the suburbs version of the Chicago Reader and was pleasantly surprised to see my friend George's production of Catch-22 mentioned on the cover! Inside it had a Critic's Choice review, which is excellent. George and his cast do a superb job with a difficult play. Go see it. Monday-Wednesday, Steep Theatre (3902 North Sheridan Road), 8pm, through Nov. 9.
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- [es-pree de less-ka/-iay] (idiom) A witty remark that occurs to you too late, literally on the way down the stairs. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations defines esprit de l'escalier as, "An untranslatable phrase, the meaning of which is that one only thinks on one's way downstairs of the smart retort one might have made in the drawing room."
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October 21, 2005
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