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...battle but in love. No matter. Taylor, though an astutely musical choreographer, has never cared much about the public history of the scores he picks. The Siegfried Idyll is the erotic pulse that the ballet moves to. In the long first section, five couples proclaim their love with both passion and a delicate concern for each other that is ineffably moving. The music changes to the Adagio for Clarinet and Strings, a brief, little-known chamber composition, also by Wagner. The couples recline at the rear of the stage, the women cradled between the men's knees. A sixth couple...
...running biographical commentary by his second wife Mary, offers the best look yet at a man who described himself as "someone whose principal work-and-amusement is writing, and reading and thinking about things." He had a love affair with learning, and he gave his correspondents glimpses of this passion that were enhanced by vivid imagination and caustic...
Given the long-standing American passion for chocolate and ice cream and the current rage for Tex-Mex fare, the invention of the Choco Taco was probably inevitable. Created by the Jack & Jill Ice Cream Co. in Philadelphia, this ethnic hybrid provides an intriguing combination of flavor texture contrasts. The basis is a crisp, taco-shaped sugar-cone wafer enfolding fudge-swirled vanilla ice cream. Over that goes chocolate-flavored coating encrusted chopped peanuts. The result is the kind of crunchy novelty snack that children and their dentists dream about. At a suggested 89¢ each, this Choco Taco just might...
...chastened Keough admitted last week, "The passion for original Coke was something that just flat caught us by surprise. The simple fact is that all of the time and money and skill poured into consumer research on the new Coca-Cola could not measure or reveal the depth and emotional attachment to the original Coca-Cola felt by so many people...
...rendition of Gogol's antibureaucratic satire The Inspector General. The cheeriest West End offering is a charming revival of Guys and Dolls starring the pop singer Lulu. But the most exciting theatrical experience in London is a trio of full-length plays originated at the Cottesloe, The Nativity, The Passion and Doomsday, that retell the Bible, accenting the life and death of Christ. The language comes from the alliterative, rhyming poetry of medieval English miracle, or mystery, plays, chiefly the York, Wakefield, Chester and Coventry cycles, but the visual imagery is imaginatively modern: God sits in judgment on a whirling...