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...called Bear Country and pushes the American mythologizing ever further, since it concentrates on an imaginative recreation of the grand old frontier, featuring life-like animatronic grizzly bears. Furthermore, two new major attractions have recently opened up. One, "It's a Small World," has extraordinary power to awaken certain childhood stereotypes of foreign lands, like Siam, Persia, or China. But even better is the Haunted House. In this house, foot-high three-dimensional translucent women wail for demon lovers, tombstones topple over revealing their gruesome contents--the entire effect alternates between mild hysteria and wondering how those full size three...
Karl Marx would laugh a knowing laugh in the midst of our presidential campaign. Deprived of an idol who somehow seems capable of transmitting a sense of purposeful unity and of moral social enterprise, longing for a human god to awaken us to our future and to make idealism fashionable, the activists of our country, the students of the first moratorium and their parents, the New Frontiersmen, retreat into despair and acknowledged political impotence...
...lovers awaken each other from the trance that is life in San Basilio, but the town hates a survivor. To be happy is to earn a curse. When Marina crumbles at the prospect of malice and decides to abort their child, Marco kills himself-apparently. Even suicide is subtle in San Basilio. The sight of lives strangled by dead traditions offends Miss Cornelisen to the bottom of her reforming American soul. "Change is possible," she insists. "The future cannot be postponed forever." But what gives her theme the tension of tragedy is that she also loves her characteis- God help...
After Hedda, social problem yields the stage to religious search. John Gabriel Borkman and Arnold Rubek, the heroes of John Gabriel Borkman (1896) and When We Dead Awaken (1899), Ibsen's last two plays, are close portraits of the artist as an old man battling desperately to make some central sense of his life before it ends. Borkman, the industrialist, loses the battle. "Those mountains far away . . . those veins of iron ore, stretching their twisting, branching, enticing arms towards me . . . wanted to be freed. And I tried . . . But I failed." But Rubek, the artist, in the last scene...
...Claremont last year. Moreover, a single ladybug devours as many as 40 or 50 aphids a day. Ladybugs are also easy to handle. The gardener should first cool them in his refrigerator to make them drowsy, then remove them at sunset and spread them around. When the bugs awaken, they are hungry. They gobble away until most aphids are gone...