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...lure of stories about families in turmoil who live in haunted houses and are visited by strangers who change the families' lives. But this time, I'll get straight to the assessments. For me, Mary Poppins worked, at a level higher than efficient and just this side of splendid. The pleasures of Grey Gardens are more mixed. It boasts a glorious performance by Christine Ebersole as both mother and daughter (I'll explain later), and Best Support by Mary Louise Wilson, in a smart show whose main deficiency is exactly what so many modern musicals lack: good music...
...Follies song "In Buddy's Eyes." Little Edie's second-act fashion statement, "The Revolutionary Costume for Today," is another Sondheimlich maneuver (that's David Zippel's pun, for praise or blame, not mine); and Big Edie's "The Cake I Had" takes its repetitive phrase from West Side Story's "A Boy Like That...
...supersede ours, in that the tens of thousands of people who have been killed are their neighbors and not the U.S.'s. The war and attendant issues?its effect on the U.S. image abroad, oil business and humanitarian concerns?would be better handled by the regional powers on our side. Bruce Schulte Ardmore, Oklahoma...
...memory as clear to Colin Croft as any of the 100-plus wickets he took as a West Indian speedster is a dressing-room visit in 1982 by the Australian captain. His side having just lost a Test match in Adelaide, the regal Greg Chappell strolled in with a message for his conquerors. "Gentleman, I'm going to be honest: you're better than us," Croft remembers Chappell saying. "But we are going to put plans in place so that, within 15 years, we're going to be not only world champions but world champions continuously." Though he'd later...
...Inspired by his fellow batsmen, Justin Langer transformed from a grafter into an opener who scored as freely as his bludgeoning partner Matthew Hayden. When selectors ended Healy's Test career in 1999, Australians lost a record-breaking wicketkeeper who more than occasionally saved his side with his bat. His replacement, Adam Gilchrist, proved to be an improvement on greatness?an almost equally accomplished gloveman who became, if not his country's finest batsman, certainly its cleanest and most dashing hitter. Of all examples of Australian extravagance this past decade, none has been more demoralizing for opponents than the sight...