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...with real characters, do-it-yourselfers who couldn't stop asking "What if..." and who had the drive - and thick enough skins - to follow through on their hunches. From the basements and garages of the heartland came the electric guitar, the electric bass, the five-string banjo, the multitrack tape recorder and the pedal steel guitar. Perhaps it's our penchant for excess that leads us to make it louder, faster, different - especially different - and not everyone may see the results as signs of progress. But these brash creations are as accurate road maps of the American soul...
Finally caught up, Venus stands next to her sister, both of them with pins in their mouth, a tape measure around their neck and chalk in their hands as they drape muslin over their mannequins. Adrian stops by and rearranges the pins Venus has misattached to the bustline. Venus looks surprisingly crestfallen, given that she must have taken a lot of rejection going door to door with her four sisters as a Jehovah's Witness...
...rain outside the John Deere factory in, of all places, Waterloo, Iowa, then on to Missouri, Michigan and Florida, where as the sun came up, he delivered Cuban pastries from a local bakery to hundreds of cheering volunteers. The reporters trailing him by this time had propped their tape recorders up on the tables and curled up underneath them...
...History remembers the strangest things: Ronald Reagan's jellybean fetish, Nixon's penchant for tape recorders, Johnson's inexplicable urge to pick his dogs up by their ears. And although you may not feel like it right now, you're in an enviable position: Over the next week or so you have the opportunity to shape not only the way history will remember you, but the way the future will treat you as well...
...eagerness that seems like the perfect diversion after a week of stress. Kiss of the Spiderwoman, on the other hand, is a profoundly moving drama of serious intention. Both will be great, I'm sure, but which should you see first? I sent out a quickie tale of the tape questionnaire to both casts. The Charity crew fired off a set of giggly responses while Kiss of the Spiderwoman's, in characteristic seriousness, reportedly was not amused...