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Bill Buckner, the first baseman who let a ground ball slip through his legs in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, is Oedipus Rex, the murderer of a city's dreams. Wade Boggs, the perpetual American League batting champion, is Prometheus Bound, scorned because he never makes The Big Hit. He gives you fire, but Bostonians expect him to produce a furnace...
...distorting the balance. Further, imagining the New Zealand-born Te Kanawa as an all-American Nellie Forbush was a greater suspension of disbelief than many listeners were willing to make. Yet My Fair Lady was solid and assured, even if Jeremy Irons did not erase the memory of Rex Harrison as | Henry Higgins. And Carousel, with songstress Barbara Cook and opera bass Samuel Ramey as the ill-fated lovers, was thrilling...
...always with Gurney, an outward simplicity conceals a puzzle hunter's trove of puns, metaphors and hidden allusions. In the opening scene, the father misquotes a literary reference and the son, in gentle correction, claims that Coleridge said the three great plots were Oedipus Rex, Tom Jones and Volpone. Sure enough, the play turns out to be, like Oedipus, a struggle between father and son; the play within a play hinges, like Tom Jones, on questions of hidden parenthood; and the father, like Volpone, proclaims his forthcoming death to see what favors can be extracted in the hope of inheritance...
Thompson should be faulted for not picking shooters such as Rex Chapman, Sherman Douglas, Steve Kerr and Dana Barros. It's not hard to imagine Chapman, Kerr and Barros lighting up the Soviets from the three-point line...
...then as "American Negroes." I interviewed prominent business leaders whose Carnival "krewes" -- the organizations whose floats parade through the streets during the Carnival season on the way to elaborate balls -- were at the center of their lives. If lengthy and solemn discussions about which debutante should be queen of Rex or Comus are carried out every year by the business leaders of a city -- not the wives of the business leaders, the business leaders -- could it be an American city...