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...endless moments the plane drifted silently, coasting peacefully a mile above our heads. And than, before our wondrous eyes, the plane dipped and twirled like a leaf as it descended towards earth...
There's little wrong and much beguilingly right with the staging by Nicholas Hytner, who also mounted the grandiose Miss Saigon and the brooding The Madness of George III, and who draws on both styles here. From a leaf-strewn greensward on a hill to a steepled white church in the twilight distance, from the island dunes of a clambake to the fairground fantasy of the title, this production entrancingly conjures iconic places of bygone mill-town New England with expressionistic verve and cinematic speed of transition. The actors are adequate, save for irksome mugging by the chorus...
...real sumo contenders, but fragmentary pictures of them pinned to the wall.) There are amazing feats of sheer visual dissection in this show, such as the view from the studio window, Wasteground with Houses, Paddington, 1970-72, or Two Plants, 1977-80, in which it seems that every leaf of hundreds has been given its own specific color, structure and marking in a way that John Ruskin might have approved...
Ancient Chinese legend says that the emperor Shen Nung was in his garden sipping a cup of hot water almost 5,000 years ago when a leaf from a tea bush accidentally fell into...
...another first for biotechnology, scientists have isolated a disease- resistant gene in one type of tomato, cloned it and inserted it into a variety of tomato that lacks that gene. The cloned gene signals the plant's defense system to ward off an invasion by bacteria that cause a leaf- destroying disease known as speck. Researchers predict that similar advances with other crops will significantly reduce the need for pesticides by the end of the century...