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...just before the finales begin, is only partly the fault of the cast, but they do very little to improve things. A production of The Mikado stands or falls by how it handles the run of brilliant songs that carry the denouement from "Here's a How-De-Do" onward. Musical director Jon Sheffer doesn't take full advantage of the grand orchestral flourishes that are meant to be milked for all they're worth. The chorus never lets go and brings the house down. I got the impression the actors were taking the play at too fast a pace...
After 35 years of officially imposed silence, Winterbotham reveals in The Ultra Secret that British intelligence did crack the code. From 1939 onward Churchill and later Roosevelt, Eisenhower and other Allied leaders were virtually reading over Hitler's shoulder. The whole system of deciphering Enigma's signals and relaying the intelligence was called the Ultra Operation. It sometimes produced translated copies of Hitler's orders to his generals within an hour of their original transmission. Little wonder that Churchill once called Ultra "my most secret weapon...
...high-scudding clouds. A spectral group of dancers passes by, cavorting to the raucous notes of a kazoo. Men and women are madly intertwined in their grimy jeans, holding out bottles of wine to balance their steps. Like shadows stretched across a brick wall, these forms stumble onward--players possessed by the harkening strains of Death in a Medieval Dance...
From boyhood onward, Patton possessed a disconcertingly literal sense of his own destiny. On a dangerous plane flight in North Africa in 1943 Patton wrote in his diary: "We nearly hit several mountains, and I was scared till I thought of my destiny, and that calmed me." He could not die, he believed, until he had achieved his "mission," something immortal. In that, he was somewhat disappointed. Patton was a swashbuckling and inventive tactician. Yet his indiscretions-the slapping incident on Sicily, his undiplomatic opinions-persuaded Dwight Eisenhower and George Marshall that however effective Patton was as a field officer...
...Michener may be guilty of, no one has ever accused him of thinking small. Practically entire forests have been felled to produce such trunk-sized novels as Hawaii and The Source. In Centennial, Michener begins with the first faint primordial stirrings on the face of the deep and slogs onward through the ages until he hits the day before yesterday. He is the Will Durant of novelists, less an artist than a kind of historical compacter...