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Televise a hearing today, and it ceases to be one. It becomes a chance to pillory your opponents, play-act morality and audition for your 15 minutes of cable fame. People not only choose sides, they also choose roles. Representative Bob Inglis, raw from his November loss to Senator Fritz Hollings, returned as the voice of the Lord, the Old Testament one. Representative Lindsey Graham's early turn as Hamlet turned out to be a search for an unoccupied spot on the opinion spectrum that might land him on Meet the Press. He found a "legal technicality" that allowed...
...story, as many know, opens as everyone in a sweet little Victorian-era town is getting ready for Christmas. Clara (Marie Ceranowicz) and Fritz (Hobraiam Suarez) and their parents host an enormous and delightful party, where the mysterious Dr. Drosselmeyer (Laszlo Berdo) gives Clara a Nutcracker toy that Fritz promptly breaks. (It is interesting to note that in this year's production, Fritz does not get spanked or punished in any way by his parents.) Drosselmeyer, however, takes pity on poor Clara--at midnight, he transforms the living room into a massive battlefield where the Nutcracker, brought to glorious life...
Daniel Pelzig has made a significant number of changes in this year's Nutcracker, some of which are for better and some for worse. Gone is the scene in which Clara and Fritz playfully try to peek through the door at the pre-gala happenings; gone also is the spicy one-woman, four-men "Spanish Dance" (it is now a simpler pas de deux). But these small changes do not make much difference in the overall appeal of the show--it remains as graceful and as cutely comical as it ever...
...week before the election, ol' Fritz is in a tussle with bounding Bob, who wants to close up that pork barrel so tight that he votes against projects that benefit his own district. "He resents the government," says Hollings. "Ask him what has he done in Washington in the past six years but whine and complain and holler pork...
...white-haired lawmaker is in the toughest race of his life is a measure of just how much has changed in South Carolina and the South since Hollings went to Washington. A progressive Governor who integrated the schools and nudged an old agricultural state into the modern age, Ernest ("Fritz") Hollings became one of the region's Democratic bulls. Now he is stranded in one of the most Republican states in a region that has been transformed from a Democratic to a G.O.P. stronghold. That has the G.O.P. in Washington giddy, pouring resources into a bid to remove Hollings, while...