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...Buckingham Gate. When he came to paint it, Stubbs set it in an English wood, its black-and-white hide in almost shocking contrast to the green tunnels of boscage and filtered shade that stretch behind it. It is as though one had taken a wrong turn in the Forest of Arden and encountered a mildly grazing apparition from another world...
...instance, in its performance of the classic "Swan Lake," the company wore blue costumes rather than white. And the dancers introduced a new perspective on "Giselle," setting it in ante-bellum Louisiana rather than the forest of the Rhineland...
...Shellman is a powerful dancer to the last moment, his leaps and turns gaining strength as the momentum built. In all, Mitchell's "Creole Giselle" is provocative, and its connection to American history and culture gives it strength that could not be gleaned from the mystical 19th century German forest...
Madison is also a biologist. His job is to manage game populations and enforce hunting and fishing laws in a vast 1,200-sq.-mi. area, most of it in the White River National Forest of northwest Colorado. It is the home of the largest elk herd (about 18,000 in all) in North America. His base is Meeker (pop. 2,356), the sleepy seat of Rio Blanco County, a town without a traffic light or a movie theater. In winter deer wander through town and are sometimes killed by motorists on Main Street. The town's economy depends...
...night Madison gets phone calls at home, often from out of state. "Some guy will call from back East and talk for an hour about some small opening in the forest where he hunted last season," says Madison. "Hell, how do I know if an elk will be standing there on the morning of opening...