Word: strausses
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...Washington that once skimped on holiday decorations have hired a singing harpist for the lobby. There are 50 kinds of mustard at the supermarket, and at the Tops in Buffalo, N.Y., sales of shiitake mushrooms have doubled this year. Clinique is marketing a perfume called Happy, and Levi Strauss sells custom-fit riveted jeans based on customers' computer-detailed specifications. The youngest donors ever to endow a chair at Stanford are the founders of Internet browser Yahoo!--even the chair comes with an exclamation point...
...latest version of Johann Strauss' invincible operetta replaces Old Vienna with New York, and sets the story on the final day of Prohibition. Besides confirming the characters in their schnapps and vodka guzzling, this innovation allows for wittiness of reference: we got to see flappers onstage during the longer instrumental passages, and hear mention of Greta Garbo, Dillinger and Einstein. The evening's comedy embraced everything from metahumor and operatic in-jokes to puns, sight-gags and slapstick, and the freshness of the jokes kept the story lively through a potentially interminable second...
...cast wasn't quite as charming as Strauss' many waltz themes, but, then again, what is? Jennifer Sgroe, as Adele, was more versatile than Margot McLaughlin's Rosalinda; both, however, sang beautifully, and displayed a fine comic gift (but is this rare?) for exposing the stupidity and infidelity of men. John Middleton and Matt Greene were admirable as minor characters, the lawyer Blind and the infinitely sarcastic Frosch. Charles Baad had several great moments as the title character, the "Bat" who was out to settle an old debt of humiliation. Kristina Martin, who sang the role of the impostor Prince...
Instead of meeting in a private office, doctor met patient within a specially designed "clinic" sculpture in the Strauss Gallery of the Fogg Museum. This action, called Medicine as Art/Art as Medicine, is the work of artist and doctor Eric Avery in conjunction with the Multi-Disciplinary AIDS Program at Cambridge City Hospital's Zinberg Clinic...
...clinic structure will stay up as an installation in the Strauss Gallery through January. The piece will be necessarily tranformed, though, when the action ceases. Avery says his work is "more about space, and less about the body," but it is doubtful that the structural remains of Medicine as Art/Art as Medicine can stand on its own as as more than a representation of times past and diseases that exist only outside the museum space. Action itself defined Avery's installation; the "act of healing" can not linger in the art space when all the doctors and patients have packed...