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...dormant reputation as a brilliant character actor. Even in his fat suit, he has an easy command of the stage, preening and prancing with joy. Extra points for hitting a long high note in his showstopping A Gift for Living Well with a large, live rat crawling around his neck. As Marian, Maria Friedman is appropriately plucky and anguished. The other women are less memorable. As the title character, Angela Christian is saddled with an irritating, hard-to-decipher accent. It's hard to be eerie when you're singing, "I be raaht oopset!" Audience members who feel the same...
...most of the 2003 season on the sidelines confined to a wheelchair. Stricken with multiple chemical sensitivity after exposure to toxins at a construction site more than a year before, by the beginning of the season Allen was unable to walk unaided and eventually lost all mobility below the neck. Despite his debilitating condition, Allen remained at the position he had held since 1996, fighting simultaneously for his own health and his struggling Holy Cross team...
...Vertus and Leclerc Briant in Epernay. Pascal Leclerc Briant has an eccentric flair as well as an ability to make beautiful champagnes. If you inquire ahead (see www.leclercbriant.com), for a smallish fee you can learn to saber a champagne bottle. Holding the thick sword on the bottle's neck, I didn't think I could do it. But I shouted like a little kid when I sliced off the bottle's top in one fell swoop. There's something about the region that helps everyone's bubbles rise to the surface...
Almost every day my little girl climbs into her old man's lap and puts her little arms around his neck and lays her head against his chest and melts his heart like cheese under the broiler. She comes home from soccer and bursts into the house and cries "Daddy!" and runs and clasps his knees for perhaps four seconds, or three, and this is the Hallelujah Chorus and the Water Lilies at Giverny of parenthood. And sometimes she says, "I love you so much." This is so indescribably lovely that the old man feels dread in his heart: When...
...Kaplan had broken a clavicle and wrist in a motorcycle accident in 1997, and the stress of subsequently hunching over a console only made the aftereffects of his injury worse. After his first Thai massage last year, "I had more freedom of movement in my shoulders and back and neck than I'd had in years," Kaplan recalls. "The pace and tempo were brighter and quicker than in table massage. There was a quicker sensation of relief and release...