Word: magnolia
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...hopelessly old-fashioned, with an anticlimactic "happy ending" that seems both clumsy and artificial. The characters remain for the most part one-dimensional; the most interesting ones simply sink out of sight, into oblivion or irrelevance. The love story never really works; even the early scenes between Ravenal and Magnolia have an unavoidably mechanical feel, and the romantic duet that concludes Act One is pretty insipid stuff next to "West Side Story" or even "The Sound of Music...
...most, if not all, viewers. The multilayered set is a marvel; with a few turns, the Cotton Blossom shifts between views of the cabin windows, the boat's prow and box office, a kitchen pantry, the interior theater and the upper deck where the young lovers, Gaylord Ravenal and Magnolia Hawks, hold their trysts. The second act is set in turn-of-the-century Chicago, the centerpiece being the Palmer House Hotel. But here, too, the set undergoes a series of eye-popping transformations, conjuring up scenes as divergent as the gate of a convent and the glitzy interior...
Most of the damaged trees were of the smaller, "ornamental" variety, including cherry, crabapple and magnolia trees, said Robert L. Mortimer, associate director for building services in the Office of Physical Resources...
...makes any remarks. The campaign says that Elizabeth will be seen more--this week she's on the Tonight Show--but the established routine will hold. Conventional wisdom says First Ladies don't impact elections. But it doesn't make sense for the campaign to turn its popular steel magnolia into a wallflower...
...Atlanta has always been how to balance the bright new equality envisaged by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with the "don't-give-a-damn" romance of the Old South immortalized by Margaret Mitchell. And how to capitalize on a past that is the source of both its magnolia-scented allure and its shame, while marketing itself as a place of the future...