Word: wonderlands
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Seles was raised in Yugoslavia but has become a naturalized and quite natural U.S. citizen. She treated New York as her own personal wonderland during her stay, catching the Broadway shows How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Show Boat, standing on the sidelines of the Dallas Cowboys-New York Giants football game at the Meadowlands in New Jersey, doing a bit on the MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall, painting the nails on one hand five different colors and signing a poster for Cal Ripken Jr. ("What wonderful blue eyes," she said...
...call it Alice in Wonderland through a smoky looking glass. The play asks us, as Alice does, to marvel at the cornucopian richness of a child's imagination. In this case, however, the cornucopia is a devil's horn. She doesn't realize it, but Emma in her nocturnal wanderings has been rooting in a graveyard. Twelve Dreams is grim and gorgeous...
Regarding your talk with Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo [INTERVIEW, June 19], I would ask if he is living in the same politically corrupt, crime-ridden, economically bankrupt country as I am. Or is he living in paradise with Alice in Wonderland? Come on, Mr. President, face reality: your five-year economic plan is a pipe dream. Get real. Talk to the people, not just to the sycophants who surround you and live in luxury. Luis C. Calvillo Mexico City...
...WINTER WONDERLAND...
Balint wears a belt buckle with an image of the Apache chief Cochise. He emulates the spirit of the Indians, disenfranchised on their ancestral territories. He seems to see himself and his friends as migrant workers in a wonderland visited by wealthy fly-fishing enthusiasts from the coasts. For some of these radicals the Endangered Species Act disguises a plan to create concentration camps for those who resist the new world order...