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...production still provided many amusing moments. One number, "The Waltz," worked particularly well, telling the story of a woman (Megan Uebelacker) who wishes she didn't have to dance with a particular suitor (Evan Sicuranza). As the music plays and couples swirl around the dance floor, the man repeatedly steps on her toes, and she denies any pain and takes all the blame. Uebelacker's asides to the audience are funny, but eventually it becomes clear that she is stuck in a courtship ritual and simply unable to breach the laws of a too-polite so ciety...
...damning report "the final chapter of an extraordinary tale." Stock in the Canadian mining company had soared from pennies a share in 1993 to over $200 last year after the company reported it was sitting on one of the biggest gold fields ever discovered. Rumors first began to swirl on March 17 of this year, when a senior company geologist fell from a helicopter under suspicious circumstances. That same week, New Orleans-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold reported what was confirmed Sunday: that there was no gold in them thar hills. Share prices plummeted more than 80 percent following that...
Whether there is any validity to the idea I don't know, but it's awfully tempting to interpret the treatment I receive from the Yankees as yet another example of baseball giving the little guy no respect, as one more sign of the swirl of problems that the game's trustees have created for themselves. "In the present...climate, these problems cannot be solved," Gienapp tells me in his e-mail. "Baseball's decline as a national sport will simply continue. It is no longer America's pastime or the national game, and it never will be again...
...sign is projected on the curtain as Penny accepts Caligari's payment for the arcade. More often, the projections just flash frantically. When Mr. Twiddle (Scott Ripley), the banker who agrees to perform in Caligari's variety show, is sentenced to death in one of the skits, a yellow swirl appears on the curtain along with words of despair and demonic laughter...
...Niger, the river, is his origin, his blood flow, which Calvin Baker, 24, a writer for PEOPLE magazine, traces through generations to the brackish wash of present time. Naming the New World (St. Martin's Press; 118 pages; $18.95) is a writer's gamble, a brief, fast-changing swirl of prose sketches, prose-poetry, and poetry standing naked. Such a recitation--it could be chanted, to drum beats, in an evening--might dissipate in artiness. The view here is that it stands solid and speaks the author's mind...