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...Cambrian explosion, then, may mark not the invention of new hardware, but rather the elaboration of new software that allowed existing genes to perform new tricks. Unusual-looking arthropods, for example, might be cobbled together through variations of the genetic software that codes for legs. "Arthropods," observes paleoentomologist Jarmila Kukalov-Peck of Canada's Carleton University, "are all legs" - including the "legs" that evolved into jaws, claws and even sex organs...
...Strauss's shocker that came straight from the libido. For its new Salome under the sophisticated hand of Director Götz Friedrich, 32, the Komische Oper signaled its intentions by tacking up a "No One Under 18 Admitted" sign at the box office. With Czech Soprano Jarmila Rudolfova as Salome, Friedrich had a tiger to inspire him and he made the most of it; after researching such questions as the typical nighttime temperature in Judea in A.D. 30 to ensure authenticity, Friedrich decided the production should be, above all, sexy. It was. Backlighting stripped Rudolfova of her seven...
...came-off at all. Sherlock Holmes did so as a museum piece that was being gently spoofed. But the spoofing, unfortunately, came off only at moments: for the most part the play, however rife with crime, merely swirled with inaction. It was lavishly produced. As Irene Adler, Metropolitan Soprano Jarmila Novotna warbled arias; there was much social chatter, much wearing of evening dress, many period fripperies and titled ladies with pasts. As much as anything else, it seemed like a tedious drawing-room play, with a dead body in place of a butler...
...prevent a waste of considerable talent, talent scarcely evident in the ragged performance on Monday night. With Basil Rathbone cast in his famous role, a script by Ouida Rathbone based faithfully though eclectically on five of Conan Doyle's best stories, and the rather curious but impressive attraction of Jarmila Novotna in the cast, it is hard to believe that the producers can't eventually come up with something better than they have...
Omnibus (Sun. 4:30 p.m., CBS). Fledermaus, with Jarmila Novotna and the Metropolitan Opera orchestra...