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...this production succeeds quite well, and also points up the disaster in the rest. When the Capulets discover Juliet apparently dead in her chamber, they explode in a satirical outpouring off grief that Shakespeare wrote to mock the traditional, over-formal conventions of Elizabethan tragedy. Mother and Father Capulet vie in the extravagance of their laments; lines like "life and these lips have long been separated" signal to the audience that this is farce, not tragedy. The cast at the Hasty Pudding conveys the full comedy of this scene. Unfortunately, the comic atmosphere lingers like an unwanted guest till...
...light of this, it is no wonder that science long shied away from studying, or attempting to explain, that most subtle and elusive of all human moods: happiness. Instead, it happily left the field to philosophers, preachers, poets-and the swarms of author-therapists who yearly vie for bestsellerdom with new formulas for attaining this desired estate...
...gift shops, campgrounds, ice-cold Billy beer (all the remains of that sunken venture have drifted hither). Just beyond the agricultural experiment station, a new information center sits by a freshly dug pond with the regulation absurd Old Faithful-type fountain. Just inside the town limits, two new buildings vie in raw gracelessness, both souvenir shops. The rival tour wagons jostle Winnebagos, in flight from the snows of Nebraska, Montana, Minnesota, Illinois and hovering here at the dozen chances to buy a now amplified selection of interchangeable junk mementos - the grinning peanut in still more awful avatars, Billy T shirts...
...both by holding off the guerrilla forces and by poking enough loopholes in plans for "transition to black majority rule" to make them more nominal than real. And when the end does come for Smith, the story will still not end happily: instead, a host of black groups will vie for control of an independent Zimbabwe, with violence a possibility and confusion assured...
There are more than a dozen different and distinct regional cuisines, and in each city the cooks vie to outdo their competitors elsewhere. A banquet consists of several dozen delicacies, orchestrated with regard for flavor, texture and color. Each begins like an opera, with an enticing overture leading ineluctably on toward the major arias. Because they lack space for pasturage, the central Chinese south of the Yellow River do not eat much beef or lamb. Most specialties are based on chicken, duck, pork, bountiful vegetables and a huge variety of fresh-and saltwater fish and shellfish. It is basically...