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Some Commusicals did fit the stolid stereotype--Mikhail and Judit shouting, "Let's harvest the beet crop right here!"--but many have an enduring buoyancy. Grigori Alexandrov's pioneering The Jolly Fellows (1934) percolates with jaunty jazz, Cubist compositions and a Dietrichish blond in a party hat. The amazing Midnight Revue (G.D.R., 1962) is a comically cynical parable about the difficulty of making a musical when your producer is not Arthur Freed but a pack of philistine bureaucrats. We can't approve your film, the apparatchiks sing...
Roughly 4.5 million acres in North Dakota and Minnesota were under chocolate-colored lakes, and potato, sugar-beet and grain farmers feared losing the planting season. As the water receded in Grand Forks and people began returning home to inspect damage estimated to top $1 billion, the Red whooshed toward Canada, bringing armies of small-town locals scurrying onto levees to hold back the river with sandbags and plywood. Mostly, they lost. There was some discussion of whether any of this could have been minimized. Some blamed the National Weather Service for underestimating the river after the melting...
...authors vary the dedications in their books, ticking off family and friends as the years go by, for Erdrich and Dorris, it seemed, there was only one Muse--the other. "To Michael, Complice in every word, essential as air," Erdrich wrote at the front of her best-selling The Beet Queen. "For Louise, Companion through every page, through every day. Compeer," read the dedication in Dorris' A Yellow Raft in Blue Water. In 1991 they even collaborated on a novel, Crown of Columbus. That book, too, became a best seller. "They were like a twin star system," says a friend...
Clinton turned beet red. "That's a lie!" he yelled at the TV monitor sitting in front of him in the Yellow Oval Room. "That's a damned...
Peterson tried five times to get his seat, and now he means to keep it. His congressional record mirrors the concerns of his district, filled with farmers and laborers who look to government aid but vote conservative on social issues. He has championed sugar-beet growers by forming the anti-NAFTA caucus and opposed gun control. Nevertheless, his past two victories have been squeakers...