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...DOESN'T TAKE MUCH to whisk an audience off to 19th-century Vienna--a crystal chandelier, rich costumes, goblets filled with champagne, and a willing suspension of cynicism. The only concession Lowell House Opera's production of Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus makes to the work's opulence is the chandelier, which you can see any time you eat at the Lowell dining hall...
...Strauss built his operetta around the flimsiest of comic opera conventions, but it's loved nonetheless for its infectious waltzes. No matter what performers do to this durable music, it will intoxicate listeners. Lowell's Fledermaus refuses to take Strauss's joie-devivre seriously--which is no sin in itself--but director J. Scott Brumit fails to provide a substitute, leaving the show to wander in a wasteland of farce, sarcasm, and tastelessness...
That behavior included two crude comments about Jews. When Aide Rob ert Strauss warned Carter that silence on these slurs was arousing widespread criticism, Carter authorized him to telephone the Washington Post and quote him as saying "You know, Bob, I just totally disassociate myself from his comments." That was still not enough. Asked at his news conference whether he would "deplore or condemn" Billy's statements, Carter insisted that his brother was not anti-Semitic and that he would not "allege to him any condemnation...
Surprisingly, the patients remained free of acne, except for an occasional surface pimple, as long as 16 to 24 months after the test ended. Exactly how the drug achieves that miracle remains somewhat speculative, but studies by Dr. John S. Strauss and colleagues at the University of Iowa indicate that it inhibits oily secretions from the skin's sebaceous glands...
...Bobby Hackett (H) 9:00.17; 2. Grandine (Y) 10:09.12; 3. Strauss...