Word: fallow
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...welcome mat for Moliere. Yet the adventurous Roundabout Theatre Company has resurrected two one-act plays by the 17th century French master, dubbed them The Moliere Comedies and fashioned a sprightly, entertaining evening. These are slight, early works by the author of Tartuffe and The Misanthrope, but in a fallow Broadway season, Moliere Lite is better than nothing...
Young's new album, Harvest Moon, is a new exercise in this sort of self-consciousness. There is no sarcastic bite to the music here, but, implicitly, he underscores what his alternative to prostituting old material: allow it lie fallow...
Sadly, Cuban cigars fell victim over the years to socialist mismanagement. The island's wrapping handicraft declined, and its tobacco fields produced inferior leaf because they were no longer properly fertilized or allowed sufficient time to lay fallow. So uneven is the yield that two years ago, Switzerland's Davidoff company, which profited handsomely for decades from Fidel Castro's crop, pulled up its Cuban stakes...
THROUGH THE GARDEN GATE: THE WORLD OF BEATRIX POTTER, Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Childhood would be a fallow field without the carrot patches and flopsy bunnies of this great storyteller. But Peter and his friends weren't Potter's only creations, and the show also delves into a trove of her naturalistic sketches. Kids will love the accompanying tea parties and interactive video games. Through...
...topic of conversation among young mothers today, and of more than passing interest to fathers. The job is a tangle of double binds. Should a mother stay at home, providing the values, discipline and security her children need, and let her hard-earned job skills go fallow? Or should she take a chance that her kids will be O.K. and pursue a life that brings more personal satisfaction and economic advantages? "It's very hard," says Stephanie Burchfield, a Los Angeles public-relations executive and mother of an 8-month-old. "I see her only an hour in the morning...