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...then, technical expertise traditionally characterizes the G&S Players' productions. The costumes, designed by Gael Simonson and Christie Brown, are lavish, lovely creations. John Magouin's sets are equally pleasing. The somber Murgatroyd castle lurking behind Magouin's pretty village scene is an especially inspired touch. Musical director Richard Hoffman deserves credit for a minor miracle: the orchestra nearly perfectly accompanies the singers--quite a feat considering the Agassiz's notoriously miserable acoustics...
...designed by John Magoun and painted by Marj Ingalls Beaty. It's a marvel of oceanic expanse on a swimming pool-sized stage. Although familiar as a National Geographic photo, the set shimmers with fairy tale color, its magic undiminished by the costumes designed by Linda Beyer and Gail Simonson. From the nobility's full regalia to the page boys' gray bibs, every outfit sparkles--jeweled...
...your story "Rape and Culture" [Sept. 12]: I am both dismayed and disgusted by the gross lack of humanity and wisdom displayed by Judge Simonson. Even if that poor girl were walking the halls naked, it still would not give anyone the right to touch...
...Simonson, 52, a plain-spoken jurist with some mod ideas in other areas of law, became the feminist equivalent of Anita Bryant last May. That was when he announced that "whether women like it or not, they are sex objects" as he set free on a probated sentence a 15-year-old youth who had raped a 16-year-old coed in a high school stairwell. Simonson explained the soft sentence as a message to women to "stop teasing." It was time, he added, for "a restoration of modesty in dress and elimination from the community of sexual-gratification businesses...
Outraged Madison women decided to eliminate Simonson instead. They picketed his courthouse and collected more than 35,000 signatures demanding his recall. When voting day came last week, Moria Krueger, 33, a local feminist attorney, easily swept past four male challengers and soundly trounced Incumbent Simonson by a vote of 21,244 to 18,435. Simonson helped Krueger's cause by campaigning listlessly while keeping up his running feud with feminism. Among other things, he claimed that the 58,000-member National Organization for Women was merely a group of souls who "travel from community to community, from state...