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ANOTHER MAJOR disappointment also mars the performance. At the start of the show, a pink-clad troubadour emerges from a fanfare and a see of light. He holds up a scroll-like banner, announcing the name of the next skit. The house lights blacken, and seconds later Marceau, dressed in his far less elaborate white costume, poses in readiness on the exact spot that the troubadour held. How does he make this miraculous switcheroo? The audience finds out at intermission, when the Marceau look-alike troubadour comes out to take a bow with his boss...
...INFERNO LIKE DRESDEN MUST NEVER BE REPEATED! proclaimed one banner, its white letters imprinted on a scarlet background. EUROPE WANTS NO EUROSHIMA! exclaimed another; SOCIALISM, PEACE, FREEDOM, declared a third. In the streets, toddlers waved tiny red flags with the hammer and sickle, and huge portraits of Marx, Lenin and Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko bobbed above a crowd of some 150,000 gathered at the Theaterplatz. From a platform emblazoned with the dove of peace, East German Communist Party Chief Erich Honecker faced the blackened ruins of the city's cathedral and, without a trace of irony, intoned: "Today Dresden...
...next stage of the ribbon project will start on Memorial Day, when, Irons said, the state's segments will be pieced together and displayed in preparation for the trip to Washington. Then, Irons and Jones will arrange for the banner's transportation and for volunteers who will hold up the Massachusetts segment during the wrapping ceremony...
Sarkisian's own banner contributions include one sewn-and-embroidered segment of mountains and a sunset, and another that traces the life of her two-year-old son. She said. "This project appealed to me because it is a positive approach. There's a lot that's appropriately frightening about learning about nuclear...
Donnelly added that the banner representatives will represent their cause at the collection's opening, and that the Mayor of Cambridge will cut a ribbon and make a speech...