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...good writer can construct a play out of cardboard and paste, and, in the right hands, even the flimsiest plot can be turned into an amusing and diverting evening in the theater. But such hands have not come anywhere near this English import, which opened on Broadway last week. Rarely has so very little been made of so very little...
After molting for the last time, in late June and early July, the caterpillars spin the flimsiest of cocoons and harden into shell-like pupae, to emerge a week or two later as full-grown moths. Gypsy moths themselves do not eat. But each female lays velvety, tan masses of 100 to 1,000 eggs on tree trunks and buildings, on the undersides of cars, trucks and trailers, in carefully stacked woodpiles. Lighter colored and larger than the male, the female does not fly but attracts the male with a powerful chemical sex lure. By August both parents will have...
Strauss built his operetta around the flimsiest of comic opera conventions, but it's loved nonetheless for its infectious waltzes. No matter what performers do to this durable music, it will intoxicate listeners. Lowell's Fledermaus refuses to take Strauss's joie-devivre seriously--which is no sin in itself--but director J. Scott Brumit fails to provide a substitute, leaving the show to wander in a wasteland of farce, sarcasm, and tastelessness...
...network anchor may, after years of struggle, bring nationwide fame and fortune. But there are now literally hundreds of men and women who, sometimes with the flimsiest of credentials, are making big names and big money anchoring local news programs. That ostensibly undemanding vocation is fast becoming the most financially rewarding job in journalism...
...important problem of the impoverished freelance writer. Rather than the low pay, it is the unprofessional attitude of editors. Queries remain unread for weeks and months. Agreements are reneged on. And there is a growing insistence that writers spend time and money producing an article on speculation, without the flimsiest of guarantees...