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...shoestrings," she says, "have lasted years longer than most people can stand each other"). An eccentric who knows as much about Thomas Hardy's novels as she does about cirrhosis of the liver, Charlie Kate is in fact a healing genius who uses herbal cures like evening primrose and Saint-John's-Wort, as well as all the modern medicine...
Happily, the recording is just the first of what promises to be Fleisher's complete traversal of the left-hand repertoire, including solo pieces, chamber music and other concertos by the likes of Scriabin, Saint-Saens, Hindemith and Richard Strauss -- virtually unknown music by major composers that fully deserves wider hearing. A virtue of necessity, perhaps. But what a virtue...
...DRAMAS CONVERGE IN SHAW'S SAINT JOAN. One is a political tale of a populist heroine put to death for taking seriously pietisms about God, King and country expounded by an elite that cares only about itself. The other is a metaphysical debate over whether this world has any place for the uncompromising rectitude of a saint. The shrewdness of Shaw's text -- and of Maryann Plunkett's sturdy Broadway performance -- is that both struggles are just as compelling whether the audience sees Joan as divinely inspired or as deeply deranged. The surrounding production by Tony Randall's National Actors...
...WASN'T NEARLY ENOUGH TO MAKE CROPS GROW or give anyone a Saint-Tropez tan, but for the first time ever, there was sunlight in the middle of the night. This seemingly divine miracle was actually the product of a thin, 65-ft. plastic mirror mounted on the unmanned Russian spacecraft Progress, which, from its 225-mile-high perch, reflected light on a sleeping Europe. The umbrella-like mirror, called Banner, did not quite turn night into day, but it did project a weak 2 1/2-mile-wide beam that danced across the Continent for six minutes. A French observer described...
...this ironic? Marketing--celebrating, even--the death of a Catholic saint by agonizing over what to do for that special love/lust of your life...