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...work with." The first dress rehearsal, five days before the premiere, was chaotic--conductor Schippers was already exasperated, snapping angry commands at the musicians: Diaz, whose cape was falling off, was trying in vain not to trip on it; there were mistakes in blocking; an 'extra' kept dropping his spear with an audible clatter; and Sills handled it all by laughing. The more tired she got, the more often she sat down between arias to massage her back, the more she joked with Diaz and Verre,; a few times they missed their cues and had to whirl around and catch...
Then nothing and something happen. Laura and Jim remain at loggerheads, while a swarm of supporting players takes over the stage. Laura's beloved brother, killed in Korea, returns to haunt her. Bearing a blunted spear is her husband Harry, a disappointed lawyer-politician now resigned to tinkering with the Massachusetts Democratic Party machine. In come Jim's parents, a bewildered, gin-swilling mother and a gambling father off on a lifetime losing streak. The cast swells to include an Italian immigrant, a Jewish real estate tycoon and assorted Cogan relatives. Without warning, what might have been just...
...view things will always be different because I grew up on a reservation," she says. "There are things behind me, in my childhood. For instance, I've gone hunting and spear-fishing with my father, and I've held partridges for him--"She looks up and smiles. "How many Radcliffe women can say they've held a partridge...
...protect themselves from robbers. In Moscow, there is a long waiting list to subscribe to a $3-a-month electronic anti-burglar system that links apartments to local militia stations. Soviet papers report citizens' electrifying their doors or installing a harpoon-like device that is supposed to spear an intruder who opens the door...
...portent, the fallen oak may not be in the same league as the events that the Historian Livy claimed presaged disaster in ancient Rome: swamps turned the color of blood, chalk rained from the skies, a spear on a statue moved of its own accord, an ox talked and a child in the womb cried "Hurrah!" Still, several Michigan newspapers carried a photo of the splintered tree with the caption "Warning from Above...