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...Town starts with a thrill: a facsimile of the Brooklyn Bridge spanning the stage, with the orchestra perched on it. Three sailors (winsome Jose Llana, robust Robert Montano, gangly Jesse Tyler Ferguson) roam wartime New York and hook up with three gals (petite Sophia Salguero, glamorous Kate Suber, fireplug Lea DeLaria). They go places, do things, and the night air is magical, electric with fun. Wolfe brings Bergdorf mannequins and Natural History Museum troglodytes alive. Actors come with their own sound effects (taxi, subway, siren). It's like a vivid old New Yorker cartoon, animated by Tex Avery...
Your portrayal of a piscatorial crisis is a real fish story. You swallowed hook, line and sinker the rhetoric of environmental groups. There is no question that some fish stocks are depressed, but more are stable and improving thanks to better science and management. World fish catches continue to grow, as does aquaculture, which now provides 25% of the global seafood supply. And your minuscule list of fish "O.K. to Eat" omits scores of products from well-managed, regulated fisheries, ranging from Alaskan salmon, halibut and pollock to New England lobster, scallops and yellowfin tuna. LEE J. WEDDIG, Executive Vice...
...whose hands, arms and legs had been hacked off by the Khmer Rouge, and classrooms where children who had escaped from mobile work units drew pictures of their experiences: soldiers plunging bayonets into pregnant women tied to trees, or plucking out a captive's liver with a specially devised hook...
...because there wasn't one: the principals weren't talking, and no one else was in a position to really know. The old excuse used by the mainstream press to write about the private lives of public officials--because the tabloids already have--has been dropped. The new hook seems to be, Let's castigate those tabloids for not giving us an excuse to write about them...
...hard-liners aren't about to let either side off the hook. "This is a budget with no sacrifice, no hard choices and no change in spending patterns or public policies," said Texas G.O.P. Senator Phil Gramm. "It's very good politics. But we're betting an awful lot on the strength of the economy, and we haven't done anything fundamentally to restrain spending." Even worse, to Gramm's mind, is the inclusion of new programs--like the $24 billion set aside for states to provide health care for children who have no insurance--that are being sold...