Word: rainbows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this production succeeds, however, much of the credit belongs to O.C. Walker, who plays Jim O'Connor, the emissary from reality who is Laura's long-hoped for gentleman caller. Unlike O'Neill and DeLorme, who are occasionally stagy, Walker is totally convincing as the "deceptive rainbow" in whose person seems to lurk the treasure trove with which the Wingfields plan to buy escape. O'Connor's scene with Laura, the climax of the play, is by far the best in this production...
...opera, has given Treemonisha a dreamy, timeless feel that softens its awkward edges and enlarges its fable. He and Designer Franco Colavecchia have conceived sets that underline that aura of make-believe. The plantation cabins, for example, are shells that are held up on poles by supers. The rainbow that greets Treemonisha's ascendancy to leadership is an arch of ribbons. Dancers with alligator and bear masks move in and out of the voodoo scene. Louis Johnson's choreography does have a touch of Broadway pizazz. But when those good plantation folks turn from corn husking to "goin...
...Atlee Burpee mail-order seed company from 1915 to 1970, Burpee found ways to invent new varieties large and small, but his main quest was for a pure white marigold, one that could be cross-pollinated with existing yellow, orange, and rust varieties to create a rainbow of new colors. In 1954, Burpee made a public offer of $10,000 for seeds that would produce a white blossom at least 2½ in. across. Amateur gardeners sent in thousands of entries, and the Burpee Co. spent $250,000 in testing them, in vain...
...granite peaks rise above the timberline marked by noble stands of ponderosa, Jeffrey and sugar pine; Eureka and Madora lakes sparkle in the summer sun, which even in August has not melted the mountain snows. Jamison Creek, running fast and clear through the park, is alive with half-pound rainbow and brook trout. Campers looking for more strenuous recreation backpack into lake-dotted Plumas National Forest, which offers good deer hunting; black bears, cougars, mountain lions and bobcats can also be seen there...
...then, have there been so few memorable hymns to his arrival? Why has so much American literature, from Huckleberry Finn to Gravity's Rainbow, cauterized America's open society? Because, Warren suggests, great art is rarely hortatory about victories: "What poetry most significantly celebrates is the capacity of man to face the deep, dark inwardness of his nature and his fate...