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...such edgy, close-cropped passages, Lowell denies himself most of the strongest weapons in his arsenal: the lushness of language and images that once re-created New England cemeteries and seacoasts, an ear unmatched among his contemporaries for the off-rhythms that can be made to rattle in the sonorities of a line of blank verse...
...place aptly named the Exploratorium. In Seattle kids can ride on a giant gyroscope to experience the principles of mechanical equilibrium, which kept the Gemini space capsule, conveniently on exhibit near by in a mockup, on target. In Jacksonville, a children's museum features a model of the ear, nose and throat canals large enough to crawl through. The Boston Children's Muse um has an area called Grandmother's Attic, where gold lame dresses and high-button shoes can be tried on. In Indianapolis, which last year became the site of the world's largest...
Ayckbourn can spot the shifting pressures of money and status with a barometric eye. His ear has perfect pitch for the recycled banalities that pass for conversation and the kind of gossip that stirs marital tempests in provincial teapots. Rarely have Ayckbourn's intelligence, nimble comic flair and sympathetic imagination been more acutely on display than in Absent Friends, which gets a rousingly animated U.S. premiere at Washington's Kennedy Center...
...matter of taste. Loops and corkscrews probably offer the rawest thrills-unadorned, mind-bending, stomach-stretching terror. Sans a 360° turnover, however, metal coasters are somewhat tame-too quiet and too smooth, and lacking the wooden coaster's capacity to engage the eye and the ear. Riding a wooden roller coaster is like barnstorming in a biplane; a trip in a metal coaster is like flying to Cleveland in a jumbo jet. Both will take you where you want to go-a little bit out of your mind with fear and fun-but only in a wooden coaster...
With The Importance of Being Ear nest Wilde raises frivolity to high fash ion, attains a comic nirvana through sheer nonsense. Apart from a wonderfully sly-tongued cast, which this production has, the play demands a director who can crack the combination of its elegant wit and satirical wisdom with the silky fingers of a safe robber. Stephen Porter is just that sort of director, and the stamp of his assurance is his total trust in the playwright...