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Hobomock Coach Jim Wagner missed several of players who were out with injuries--or simply didn't show up. Only nine players suited up for the Hawks, outdoing even Harvard's paltry 12-woman squad...
...there this winter, says his agent, "as a show of support | for the people of that community, which overwhelmingly defeated Amendment 2." Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, significant contributors to AIDS groups, say they are troubled by the vote but have no plans to move. Other fun couples -- Robert Wagner and Jill St. John, Chris Evert and Andy Mill -- are expected to be on view, somewhere between the chateaus and the inevitable pickets...
...admit it. I'm Jewish. I don't go to Hillel; I eat my share of shrimp; and I listen to Wagner. And my last name is as goyishe as it gets. But I'm Jewish. I live in Manhattan; I can quote Woody on command; and I observe (Jews never "celebrate") in varying degrees of intensity the high points of the Jewish ritual calendar...
...undead have stalked opera houses as disparate as San Francisco and Bayreuth, in both cases in Wagner's The Flying Dutchman. But Zambello goes further in her use of pop cultural references, particularly cinematic ones. The expressionistic sets recall Tod Browning's original 1931 film, Dracula (Bela Lugosi would have felt right at home at Ravenswood), while Martin Pakledinaz's costumes evoke David Lynch's sanguinary 1984 intergalactic flop, Dune. In the famous mad scene, Lucia's descent into insanity is symbolized by a steep staircase, down which the white-gowned murderess floats like her Nosferatu namesake, Lucy Westenra, Coppola...
...root of the trouble, says Bernd Wagner, a former eastern police official and an expert on right-wing radicalism, is the severe dislocation of eastern society: in addition to unemployment, housing is in short supply, rents have tripled, crime rates have skyrocketed. "To say that solving the asylum problem will solve the far-right problem is complete nonsense," says Wagner...