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...comfortable as this production is to watch, it retains the play's stark dramatic moments. The slow pacing of these scenes, as well as the play's long denouement, makes Merchant seem even longer than its two-and-a half hours. The Merchant of Venice is a pleasant gondola ride, but if it were any more languorous, it would be up a creek...
...lameness of another kind, a fear that the heads of the world's leading industrial democracies may be powerless to make the kind of daring compromises demanded by a perilous imbalance in world trade and by the threat of global recession. Indeed, there are plenty of signs that a gondola ride through troubled waters lies ahead for the leaders of the U.S., Japan, West Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Canada when they gather in Venice for their 13th annual economic summit next week...
Mount Snow has been undergoing a tremendous expansion. With the annexation last year of the nearby Carinthia ski area, and some clever trail cutting this summer, Mount Snow has added another 18 trails--all of which are skiable from the main lifts and the unique skis-on gondola...
...more than a day off the old record. "A piece of cake," said Hageman. The only hitch in their speedy journey (up to 76 m.p.h.) was when the Dutch Viking touched down a little fast in a wheatfield twelve miles east of Amsterdam; Brink was thrown out of the gondola and slightly injured his hip. The $2 million trip's highlight? Evelien loved "sitting on the afterdeck at night and enjoying the constellation (while) the balloon turned continually...
...Rhinemaidens frolic in Victorian bloomers. Fricka ascends to Valhalla by means of a balloon gondola. The Valkyries ride off to war aboard carrousel horses suspended in midair. Wotan puts Brunnhilde to sleep in what appears to be a cluttered attic, full of ungodly bric-a-brac, and she awakens in a starry mausoleum. Siegfried slays the dragon Fafner by chopping at a gigantic crab's claw and then pushing over a flimsy set of painted flats. The forest bird who guides the hero to Brunnhilde is a taxidermist's specimen, carried aloft on a stick by a highly visible soprano...