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Brook defends his treatment of Carmen as something historically necessary: "Brick by brick, layer by layer, opera has been encased over the centuries to the point where today it is perhaps the most unnatural object in the whole of our society. To correct this, we must go back to the very roots of what the composer has in mind, to restore opera to its natural life...
While Tafoya admitted working with Wilson in Libya, he said he did so as an undercover agent for the CIA, which understandably wanted to know what was going on in Gaddafi's inner circles. Tafoya's lawyer added another layer of complexity by suggesting that Wilson, too, might have been working under "deep cover" in Libya for the CIA. Tafoya's real mission in approaching Zagallai, the defense claimed, was to carry a message from the CIA asking the student to tone down his rhetoric on Middle East issues. But several jurors said after the verdict that...
...unfettered mirth here from the rest of the Warner menagerie: from Bugs, the Cagney of lagomorphs, who plays Galahad and slickshooter to the splenetic Yosemite Sam in two of the best shorts (Knighty Knight Bugs, Wild and Woolly Hare); from the hugely talented Daffy Duck as a reluctant egg layer (Golden Yeggs); from Granny, Tweety Pie and a sternutating dragon. Freleng is no match for the great cartoon directors, Chuck Jones (Road Runner) and Tex Avery (Droopy Dog). Still, there are more than enough in-spite-of-yourself laughs in these 80 minutes to guarantee a happy Saturday matinee...
...single visit to the dentist. Diluted phosphoric acid is applied to the natural tooth, etching microscopic pores into the enamel. Next comes a coat of liquid plastic to seal the tooth. Then a paste composed of plastic and finely ground quartz, glass or silica is patted on in thin layers tinted to match the natural teeth and molded into the desired shape. After each layer is applied, it is exposed for up to 40 seconds to either ultraviolet or visible light beams. This triggers a reaction that hardens and bonds the layer to the underlying material. The newly built tooth...
...employee named Priss, striding into a narrator's office "all body," and telling him. "People like you marry people like me;" as the intense 17-year-old wife of the teenage narrator; even in one post-mortem fantasy, as a formless floating femine "blob" of a soul whose outer layer develops iron patches when her philosophizing outstrips the narrator's comprehension...