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Their chance comes in the Ardennes during mid-December 1944. The unit is ordered to establish an observation post in a deserted château deep in the forest. It is as if Hansel and Gretel had been illustrated by Bill Mauldin. Tired, cold and filthy, the band enters a zone of ominous enchantment. From behind trees and bushes, German soldiers call out greetings, offer whisky and good wishes for a sound sleep. They throw snowballs, not grenades; they return lost equipment and finally leave the perplexed G.I.s a Christmas tree decorated with candles, apples and potatoes...
...Minnesota Twins christen their new ballpark this spring, Pete wanted the first baseball hit safely in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. It is rolling around in his dresser drawer now. "I might as well get them all," says Rose of the souvenir balls that have marked his trail like Hansel's breadcrumbs. "Soon I'll have made more outs than anybody, and I want that baseball...
...Million Ruble Man," by K. Brothers, Princeton class of '82, "Liquification and Deconstructionism. The Image of the Blender in Proust, Flaubert and Joyee," by Petrarcha Checker '85, and "The Naked Eye and Other Images of Obscenity in 'I Am a Camera' and 'The Eye of the Needle," by Ansel Hansel...
...derailments. After a couple of ragged but promising early albums, Jeffreys cut a great song, Wild in the Streets-about those mystery kids-and put out an album called Ghost Writer that was one of the standouts of the '70s. Great things were predicted. Subsequent records were like Hansel's trail of crumbs through the woods, attempts to clear away stylistic underbrush and find the path back...
...Looking over his plans, Music Director James Levine concluded that "the losses for the future seem remarkably small." The house reopens next Wednesday, and the Met will begin performing such works as Alban Berg's Lulu, Tristan und Isolde and-holiday-minded families will be happy to hear-Hansel and Gretel. Two of the four new productions originally announced for this season-Queen of Spades and Così Fan Tutte-have been postponed; La Traviata and Parade, a trio of one-acters by Satie, Ravel and Poulenc, will probably proceed as planned. As many as seven scheduled repertory items...