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...production and directorial staff deserve sympathy on this account: the opera's plot is gushy and melodramatic in a way that transcends even the often sappy plots of Romantic and Classical opera. A family tries to regroup after the tragic (drunk driving) death of a mother. Daughter Susie, son Junior and Francoise, who is Susie's husband and Junior's former lover, return for the funeral and try to heal various painful wounds from the past. This is the stuff not of musical opera, but of soap opera...
...story of this little girl is about an illness, but of a different kind. At a time when the nation is still drunk with glee over its dashing victory in the gulf, New York had produced a parable that points up all the tragedies that can befall a little girl living on America's fraying urban front. With the fatalism of big-city survivors, her neighbors have already declared that this 12-year-old never had, and never will have, a chance. "She had it bad for 12 years," said one. Said another: "Most of us don't expect...
...feels that the perpetuation of the happy drunk leprechaun stereotype is equivalent to an ethnic slur, and therefore encourages the Harvard community to celebrate March 17th not by drinking beer, but by engaging in more culturally appropriate activities, such as reading Yeats or, perhaps, watching John Wayne physically drag a woman's body through the Irish countryside in "The Quiet Man." Now, how's that for "rich and beautiful Irish culture...
Still, the image of the jolly Irish drunk is one with which America is quite comfortable...
...desert, language may be their richest possession: Why not? It opens miraculously onto other worlds. The Koran, with its bursts of sonority and light, describes a paradise that has everything the desert does not: the sweetest water, cool shade, silken couches, wines that one can endlessly drink without getting drunk...