Word: skillfull
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everything, including the ordinary, seems strange in these fortresses. In the Stateville library, a huge inmate stands and squints at Bing Crosby's memoir, Call Me Lucky. A young, white female history teacher asks her class of ten young black men, "And who won World War II?" In permissive California...
The race will also be the most grueling test of nautical know-how imaginable. There will be four legs with a week's rest required at the end of each. The solo sailors must first cross the Atlantic to Cape Town, South Africa. From there, the small boats must...
Lapine is a skillful sight gagster. His staging of the Pyramus and Thisbe play-within-the-play is a little masterpiece of smartly timed slapstick. And having his quartet of young lovers lose bits and pieces of their costumes in their befuddled woodland wanderings is an apt comic comment on...
That pollsters not only measure what the public thinks of a President's policies but must give equal attention to whether he is liked personally says something troublesome about a TV presidency and the skillful merchandising of personality.
Rochberg has done his best to flesh out the unpromising material. The opera, his first, is filled with striking set pieces: a lyrical duet for China (Tenor Neil Rosenshein) and his wife Annabella (Soprano Sunny Joy Langton); an ominous interview between China and his moneyed friend Orchis (Tenor Michael Fiacco...