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BEETLES, by Ewald Reitter (205 pp.; Putnam; $20). The season's most beautifully photographed gift book is also the crawliest, and while there are doubtless many givees who will not be able to put it down, there are a good many more who will not be able to pick...
Some of those who adore the early, sentiment-laden Puccini operas, have decided that Turandot is an "insincere" work. The super-heros are accused of inhuman conduct--which was precisely what Puccini had intended. (In one of his many letters to Giuseppe Adami, the librettist, Puccini had called Calaf and...
It is easy to see why Boswell and the rest of London's intelligentsia were so entranced by this play about thieves and harlots. Up to the time John Gay wrote it in 1728, London opera had been the Italianate tableaux of Handel, complicated tales of gods and goddesses, ancient...
The Compromise, which is set in "The Canadian North Woods," presents a Jackie Gleason-type Mountie accused of thievery, kidnapping, and bad faith by the lecherous villain who has designs on the Mountie's wife. Hopelessly involved in a tangle of impossible circumstances, the Mountie goes away for five years...
There are many variations on this theme, such as Hellgate in which a neurotic Union officer brutally persecutes a southern boy unjustly sent to prison. But the idea germaine to all is that the South, alone, provides such stuff as heros are made of.