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Before the play even starts it is easy to recognize a winner. The set is built like sculpture more suited to the Science Center than a stage. Tall columns stand at the sides of the stage where trees or flats would go in any other play. Each piece is made of solid, embracing color which balances out the uniform black backdrop perfectly...
...This is the field trial work. That's where we come in," says Telford, who returned from a European vacation hoping to find a tall pile of replies waiting on his desk. "Nantucket people can be part of something that will protect their kids and be used the world over...
...hold against the pounding of a once-in-a-century flood. Hold they did: with few exceptions, the cities flooded were those protected only by privately built levees that were not well constructed. The waters that flooded agricultural land mostly broke through or swept over levees not as tall as those guarding the cities...
...BOTTOM LINE: The winning ways of a tall baseball tale are sabotaged by sloppy detail work...
...prank apparently fooled Utah-based Sun International Pictures, which produced the show and sold it to CBS. But Jammal's tall tale was not the only misleading part of the special. Sun filled the two hours with a mixture of fact, conjecture, fantasy and arrant nonsense, while offering no clues as to which was which. "Eyewitnesses" who claimed to have seen or even touched the ark paraded in front of the camera. Unfortunately, the audience was told, an earthquake, attacks by terrorists, the Russian Revolution and other inopportune events had frustrated various attempts over the years to bring back clear...