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Incongruous ensembles dot the score. A whole chorus of Portuguese townspeople interrupts an inquisition with "What a day for an autoda-fe." The cast collectively bemoans their lot with unfortunately appropriate words--"What's the use"--to the strains of Venetain-style organ grinding that would have made even Sir Arthur Sullivan shudder...
...scrutiny," which focuses this week on first-year outreaches, was named after Sir Larry Scrutiny. A Harvard graduate, Sir Scrutiny was a passenger on the historic Pacific Princess. With one foot on the lifeboat that would carry him and nine lucky others to safety, Scrutiny forfeited his place upon realizing that he had left a brilliant piece of investigative journalism in the ship's infirmary, with Doc. That's also why we serve popsicles three times a day here...
...Good evening, sir. Good evening, ma'am. What were those numbers again?'' Raster asks. Same voice, but different inflections -- more human. I call out the numbers one more time and he comes back with...
Lebed: Positively. It's my ``porcupine'' theory of command. No commander can know everything. He must rely on deputies, competent in the narrow areas assigned them. His responsibility is to make sure none of them tugs the blanket to one side of the bed. A deputy who answers ``Yes, sir'' to every stupid thing his commander says can get his boss into serious trouble. He must have the courage to take a stand and be able to defend...
...stripped-down accompaniment soundrepetitive, and the occasional thinness ofPuccini's idiom, denuded of its instrumentalsparkle, is betrayed in passages such asRinuccio's aria--eerily reminiscent of Sir ArthurSullivan--or Gianni's unveiling of his plot, whichsmacks of cabaret music...