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Jeanne Button's costume designs are for the most part exemplary. And all the men in Orsino's household are identifiable through having shoes with bright red heels. In any game it's good to be able to tell the teams apart easily...
...much care for most of Laura Crow's eclectic costumes either. The ones for Olivia's household, post-Elizabethan but still European, are passable. But those for Orsino and his attendants are light organdy dresses that seem to have wandered out of some edition of The Arabian Nights. Is this supposed to be a reverse comment on Viola's transvestism...
Through two acts the three pursue their various crazes, ending up with confessions of love and a seeming return to the gruff status--quo of the father--dominated household. Along the way, Gilroy would have us believe, they all learn a lot about each other and begin to appreciate each other more. How this play ever won anything, much less a Pulitzer, is beyond us; it must have been a bad year...
...inevitably hurting an economy based so heavily on trade. In addition, Japan's shipbuilding yards and textile mills are meeting tough competition from spanking new facilities in lowpaying, less developed nations such as Brazil and South Korea. Small-and medium-size general merchandise producers of toys, hardware and household goods are losing markets to rivals in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Profits are meager for many companies, and 18,000 firms went bankrupt last year...
...office of energy conservation. The course involves 390 students in six Jefferson County schools. Points are made mostly through class activities. A sample: "Catch the Sun," a lab experiment that measures the heating power of solar energy on a thermometer. A key exercise calls for students to record their household energy use?kilowatt-hours of electricity, cubic feet of natural gas?on special grid sheets. In this way they can compare their energy use with the much smaller world average. Most students take to heart what they learn. Diane Molzahn, 13, reports that her family have...