Word: cornucopia
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Much of the power of the show is derived from those features on the periphery. The talented live rock band surrounding the stage provided a cornucopia of upbeat musical styles from gospel to funk to 1950s rock. The staging brilliantly took advantage of the constraints of the Pool Theatre by often placing the audience in the center of the action and cleverly utilizing the beast-like visage overlooking the pool. The vibrant colors of the set design and costumes complemented the perky, upbeat tone of the actors and reflected the psychedelic influences of the show's 1970s origins. The choreography...
...visiting Miami because you meet an interesting collection of gay men from all over the world," says a 32-year-old college professor from Chicago who makes the trip twice a year. But not everyone is as thrilled with the lure of Miami Beach as a same-sex social cornucopia. Locals have complained about noise and lewd behavior outside some nightclubs. "That's not the kind of society we want to see," says Phineas Weberman, a local Orthodox rabbi who claims that many tradition-minded families are abandoning the heavily Jewish area because of their new neighbors. Critics in other...
...This cornucopia of selection, however, does carry with it a potential problem for other Harvard Square booksellers. In the past few years, several small Square booksellers have gone out of business because they couldn't compete with larger superstores...
...call it Alice in Wonderland through a smoky looking glass. The play asks us, as Alice does, to marvel at the cornucopian richness of a child's imagination. In this case, however, the cornucopia is a devil's horn. She doesn't realize it, but Emma in her nocturnal wanderings has been rooting in a graveyard. Twelve Dreams is grim and gorgeous...
...winner Julie Harris, is splendid. As Tom, Zeljko Ivanek is particularly fine. With quicksilver facility, he is now the sly commentator standing outside the action, now the hot-tempered and frustrated artist. When he nearly upsets Laura's menagerie, the look that flashes across his face is a tiny cornucopia of rue, love, self-disgust, fear and resignation. Calista Flockhart's Laura is near perfect, her pathological shyness so organic that it is painful to watch. Only a tendency to sing her words mars her performance. As the Gentleman Caller upon whom Amanda pins her great hopes for Laura, Kevin...