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...boats, spacing out on drugs, shelling from offshore, amputating limbs, bombing from B-52s, killing, maiming -- and getting maimed and killed. How all that ended is well known. Bill Clinton, a college dissenter during the height of hostilities in Vietnam, showed last week that he could put a coda to that sad history and make a fresh start at pacification, this time with butter instead of guns. His lifting of Washington's 30-year-old trade embargo against Hanoi amounted to the final farewell to arms in the long, dismal, tortured struggle that devoured much of the best resources...
...highlight of last weekend was appropriately the closer of Sunday night's show, "Standing On The Moon." Starting off slow and mellow, it incrementally blossomed into a exhibition of how strong and healthy Jerry is. As Garcia's vocal coda of "with you" rose and rose in volume, the exhausted capacity crowd of 15,700 came to its feet with a roar, causing Garcia to become even more exuberant and finish the normal set of the last show of the weekend with the most animated vocal solo this writer has ever seen...
...puppeteer peeking out from behind the curtain, Sting dares the listener to "Pick my brain, pick my pockets/ Steal my eyeballs and come back for the sockets/ Run every kind of test from A to Z/ And you'll still know nothing 'bout me." It's a fittingly elusive coda from pop's most mercurial bard...
...odds (Hang On to Me Tonight). Most surprising of all, Wandering Spirit closes with an unexpected knockout combination of two low-key tunes: Angel in My Heart, which has instrumental echoes of the Stones' classic Lady Jane, and Handsome Molly, a traditional folk song that gives the record a coda that lingers like the end of a ghostly love story...
...costumes. The largesse makes it even more unfortunate that in the end the choreographer's imagination is defeated by Tchaikovsky. In the second act the music expands opulently, demanding matching grandeur onstage. But Morris wastes the grand pas de deux on a routine group number and sets the explosive coda as a small- scale duet for Marie, the heroine, and the Nutcracker Prince. It's a bad letdown...