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Madama Butterfly, you know, is about as Japanese as lasagne. The Boston Opera Group's production, which will be presented again at the Harvard Square Theatre tomorrow night, almost manages to convince us otherwise: Ming Cho Lee's set is delicately authentic in shades of grey; the second-act Flower Duet culminates in an inspired bit of flower-arranging rather than in the usual mess of pink petals strewn about the stage; best of all, the cast is almost entirely Japanese. We are, as I said, almost convinced that Madama Butterfly is really about Japan-but Puccini's music spoils...
...Passion Flower Hotel, Erskine...
...matter." Shells, corals, bones, bulbs-all fascinate him. So do his microscopic studies of bits of skin, strands of hair, pieces of crystal. Transposed to canvas, these forms turn into other forms, so that the interior of an ear can just as well be the inside of a flower...
...Respect. Nureyev ignores his critics, though he realizes that he still has much to learn-and many observers agree with him. In bravura numbers-such as the pas de deux from Le Corsaire or from Bournonville's The Flower Festival of Genzano-his technique is often insecure. Nureyev himself points out that Yuri Soloviev of the Kirov Ballet is a far more polished performer. But what remains undisputed is that no dancer has greater natural gifts than Nureyev, or a more tempestuous temperament...
...April 1945. Eleanor Roosevelt followed her husband's casket from a white cottage at Georgia's Warm Springs, down Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue, into the flower-scented East Room of the White House. "Is there anything I can do for you?" asked the new President, Harry Truman. Replied Mrs. Roosevelt, "No, but is there anything we can do for you?" When she returned home to Manhattan the following week, she dismissed waiting reporters with four words: "The story is over...