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American official taste -- late-modernist taste -- shows no real or sustained interest in artists who are prepared to make a life's work out of the challenge of imbuing real figures and objects with strong plastic meaning in deep space. There are a few exemptions, such as Philip Pearlstein, but...
Act II symmetrically begins as the balloon descends amongst dancing angels on a cloud covered stage (created with dry ice) and Clara and the Nutcracker enter the Palace of Sweets in the sky. Balanced on the brink between girlhood and young womanhood, Clara's fantasy of a Prince in Candyland...
And what will she call it: The Bridges of...Oh, I dunno.
Within minutes, we were whisked to Peabody Terrace, the apartment complex that houses grad students. Concrete towers, connected to one another by concrete bridges, loom over a dimly lit parking lot, a court-yard, and some playgrounds. Quite a sight.
Robert Waller's novels, The Bridges of Madison County and Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend, are both at the top of the New York Times Best Seller list, as No. 1 and No. 2 respectively. That's not all they have in common.