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...costumes manipulate the mouths and arms by means of levers, while technicians in the audience control the movements of the eyes and noses. (The singers who provide the voices of the creatures are miked offstage.) Even jaded adults get a joyful frisson when Moishe, Tzippy, Bruno, Bernard and Emil come bouncing onstage, rolling their terrible eyes and gnashing their terrible teeth. Constructed by Britons Paul and Gill Fowler for the world premiere of the opera at Glyndebourne last year, they were refined and improved for the American production. Brought to life by Knussen's witty score, which slyly quotes from...
Meanwhile, perched several stories above them all, on a planet of his own invention, the Scientist (Michael Emil) fumbles among stacks of yellowing papers that contain the secrets of his final project--a theory unifying the fields of nature...
...wait is over. Garrison Keillor, self-effacing fabulist, closet sociologist and "America's Tallest Radio Humorist," has written the history of "the little town that time forgot and that the decades cannot improve." His affectionate sketches provide a full granary of bemused narratives about favorite Wobegonians, including Father Emil, who blesses animals on the lawn of Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility Church; the Statue of the Unknown Norwegian, which sprouts grass from an unusual place; and Angler Dr. Nute, a retired dentist who tells the sunfish, "Open wide . . . This may sting a little...
...finalities. Lonely Norwegians with whisky bottles lie down on their family graves in Our Prairie Home Cemetery to talk to the dead about the old country. Keillor's folk confront mainstream America with beer and trembling. They are still wagging their heads and clucking their tongues over Father Emil's summer replacement. Golfing Father Frank proclaims of his martini at a backyard party, "Dry. Mmmmm. What did you do? Just think about vermouth, for Christ's sake...
...TIME board expects the White House to fight hard for its plan to boost the personal exemption in order to help trim the total amount that individuals pay. Observed Emil Sunley, director of tax analysis for the accounting firm of Deloitte, Haskins & Sells: "The President is going to want to say, 'In my term of office, I have doubled the personal exemption and I have cut the marginal tax rates in half.' That has a nice ring...