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...illegally mined to begin with. A miner with a few pesos to invest in dynamite and tools assembles a squad of men and goes off to dig. It is not a difficult job: the standard mining method is simply to dynamite the ground with a small charge, then rake emeralds out of the soil with crowbars. The stones lie so close to the surface that one rich mine was discovered in 1955 by pigs that turned up emeralds while rooting through a field...
...Nichols has never been less tricky or more acute. With dazzling focus he watches Sandy light upon an icily gorgeous WASP named Susan (Candice Bergen). The naif spills every intimate detail to his roommate; with metronomic two-timing, Jonathan moves in on Sandy and with Susan. But the Ivy rake has only one real amour: the mirror. Eventually he abandons Susan to Sandy, who marries her and lives happily never after...
...Traverse City's cherry growers also stopped using related poisons. Even so, the pesticides already in the environment will remain potent for years, and Lake Michigan is surrounded by home gardeners who use other persistent poisons. All the citizens of Traverse City can do now is rake their reeking beaches and hope for a miraculous return of the gulls-the area's best and cheapest garbagemen...
...quits. But as the climbers saw it, the trip was hardly a waste of time. At the 17,200 ft. level they found heaps of junk discarded by previous climbers-ski bindings, socks, even underwear-plus tons of paper blown round the mountain by 100 m.p.h. winds that rake its frigid slopes...
Althoug there are flaws in the production, it is nonetheless of great musical interest. In general, it is a good treatment of a complex work. Lowell House's Rake is a more challenging undertaking than a production of some Mozart warhorse, the kind of thing House opera groups usually do, and much more worth seeing...