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...answers, as might be expected with such a patchwork show, depend on what is onstage at the moment. The pratfall pandemonium of the opening scene of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum makes one long for a full-scale Broadway revival. The dance suite of teen gang wars adapted from West Side Story actually benefits by being divorced from the original's cute, coy lyrics, which in life would not tumble trippingly from the tongues of underprivileged youth. The wide-eyed wonder of city life may never have been more vibrantly shown than among the World...
...Mikhail Gorbachev has learned since coming to power in 1985, the "unbreakable union" has a few cracks. The 285 million Soviet people form a patchwork of at least 100 ethnic groups in 15 national republics, 20 autonomous republics, eight autonomous regions and ten autonomous areas. Only about 140 million are ethnic Russians -- and a growing number of the remainder are restless...
David shares a bedroom with his siblings. The room is barely large enough to fit the three beds. In the winter, cold air knifes through the spaces between the clapboard walls. The children sleep under layers of homemade patchwork quilts. No door separates their bedroom from the living room, a small rectangle dominated by the wood stove that is the sole source of heat for the house...
...Atlanta, Jackson told the audience "I am somebody." He talked about his grandmother, his childhood, his goals. But in purely election-year terms, the speech earned a place in history for the variety and attractiveness of its metaphors. America is a great patchwork quilt. Jackson and Dukakis, anchored separately but coming together in the same harbor--going out to challenge the big ships in the ocean...
From the air, a dry spell of even this magnitude is hard to see with the naked eye. Some fields are parched out, and crops are plainly scraggly. But the patchwork of greens and golds still reels by under jet wings heading west. The great shoulders of the Rockies have some snow on them still. It takes a closer inspection and a conditioned eye for full understanding. The trees of Minneapolis hide devastated home lawns and gardens. Out West, dry-weather weeds have sprung up in the draws of prairie pastures, adding deceptive color. All through the Midwest are fields...