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...which includes ahs and boos for 7,500 wines. Parker devotes more lineage to bottom-drawer bargains than he used to, so there is helpful advice here on $6 Cabernet Sauvignons from Chile and good-value Chardonnays from South Australia. But few readers will ever get to share his delight in $500 Montrachets that have long since vanished from the marketplace...
Books: Wild things to delight kids this Christmas...
When Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical retelling of the Hollywood film noir classic Sunset Boulevard made its debut in London in July, audience response was respectful but restrained. The staging that opened in Los Angeles last week had playgoers shouting with delight. Part of the difference may be the American propensity for public exuberance; some is surely the special joy Angelenos derive from a sly, knowing look at the gritty world of make-believe that dominates their local commerce. But the major reason is that the creators have at last figured out what the show is meant...
...Lincoln in Illinois was one of three plays to win Pulitzer Prizes for author Robert E. Sherwood during a five-year span. (The others were Idiot's Delight, a 1936 comedic outcry against the forces breeding World War II, and There Shall Be No Night, a 1940 tragedy about the invasion of Finland.) A commercial success, Abe Lincoln ran more than a year. For its time, an era of patriotic fervor verging on hagiography toward national leaders, it is daringly candid...
Waterston struggles manfully to explicate this underwritten character, never more successfully than when he capers around the stage in delight at a couple of his own irreverent jokes. But it is a measure of how stately and hollow the enterprise is that the grandest moments are the scene changes, with their sweeping use of the wide stage, and the special effects of the finale, as a train pulls in to take Lincoln away to Washington, martyrdom and immortality...