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...domain lies near the resort village of Herrenalb in the southern German state of Baden-Württemberg. In the hills above the quaint Black Forest town, the dark evergreens that gave the region its name are dying, victims of a blight that is destroying an alarming amount of the for est acreage of heavily industrialized West Germany. In the central state of Hesse, 10% of the spruce are now gone; in the northern city-state of Hamburg, almost 25% of the pines are suffering. Southern Germany has been hit most severely: more than half the trees...
...Characters and Their Landscapes, is no celebration of the romantic idyl. Blythe well knows the curse of the quaint. He understands the perversity as well as the sanity in the compulsion of an Englishman to pull on his boots and muck about on the meadows, heaths and chalky plains of his native land. With country realism the author allows that to "be a native once meant to be a born thrall." He also notes that "Robert Burns' object in publishing his poems was not to celebrate his oneness with the village of Mossgiel but to make enough money...
Director Michael Wieshan must be credit with at least recognizing this possibility. From the stylized program and elegant costumes to the old-time music and quaint Lower Common Room set, the play has all the outer makings of a memorable production. Yet these external touches are not enough to evoke the sense of nostalgia and camaraderie so vital to the show's thematic and character development. Instead, what we get is a series of seemingly endless scenes between half-developed characters who appear uncomfortable on stage and uncertain of just who it is they're supposed to be portraying...
Grenadians looked on with benign amusement as their "rescuers" indulged in a quaint American custom last week. Thanksgiving provided a break in the culinary monotony for U.S. troops, who dug into ham, sweet potatoes and 1,670 Ibs. of hot turkey airlifted in from Fort Bragg, N.C. The feast, which some troops washed down with pungent Algerian wine liberated from the Cubans, even had a trickle-down effect for 100 local schoolchildren: they received C rations donated by U.S. soldiers. The spirit of giving heightened the good feeling that in general has held up since the Americans arrived. Petitions with...
...multitiered wedding cake was topped by two turkeys, one with a stethoscope, the other wearing ballet shoes. Except for that quaint nod to Thanksgiving, the marriage last week of Mary Tyler Moore, 45, to Manhattan Cardiologist Robert Levine, 29, went on without any of the giddy glitches that usually bedeviled Mary Richards, her old TV alter ego. After the traditional Jewish ceremony (Moore, a Catholic, took instruction in Judaism but has not converted to her husband's faith), the bride cut the cake for some 300 guests, including such MTM alumni as Valerie ("Rhoda") Harper, Cloris Leachman...