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Throughout the book, Proulx does a matchless job of summing up the human comedy of a modern West in which the cowboys are apt to pull up stakes to go to UCLA film school. She also likes to traverse whole decades in the space of a paragraph or two, as though to say that from the long mineral perspective of the Western soil and sky, sizable stretches of the 20th century might very well slide by in parentheses. It's the kind of perspective that comes with...
...legendary electronic cacophonists are recreating their sinister studio constructions on stage, collapsing several buildings in the process. Blixa and the boys have settled down a bit on their last album, Perpetuum Mobile, but the live show should still be a matchless, if somewhat torturous, evening. Tickets $16. 8 p.m. Paradise Rock Club, 967 Commonwealth Ave., Boston...
Still here are the matchless Jerry Bock--Sheldon Harnick songs (has any opening number done a better job of introducing a show's themes, setting and characters than Tradition?); most of Jerome Robbins' original choreography; and Joseph Stein's solid book (based on Sholom Aleichem stories) about a Jewish milkman and his marriageable daughters in the Russian village of Anatevka, in the days before they are uprooted and forced to migrate to America. But Leveaux has ditched the old-fashioned scene changes and set the show on an open stage, with bare trees silhouetted against a translucent blue and orange...
...Harvey--a former umpire so esteemed by National League players that they called him "God"--said to Leavy, "I have as much respect for Sandy Koufax as for any man I've ever met in my life," he wasn't talking about Koufax's skill. It was not his matchless talent that exalted Koufax beyond his greatest contemporaries so much as it was his knowledge that character was not connected to talent. He never discredited his majestic accomplishments--"How could you do the things I did and not love it?" he asked Leavy in an unguarded moment--but he always...
With drought conditions and wildfires already consuming homes and forests in 10 states, it's clear that campfires are inadvisable this year. Instead, consider singing around these matchless alternatives...