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...Though the show has a few longueurs and excesses, Champagne typically finds mind-expanding ways to visualize the songs. He sets this theater-in-the-round spinning with big ideas and vibrant images: kids with blank faces (for "Nowhere Man"), an Eleanor Rigby character toting her past in a cluttered cart, a jaunty man on trombone-shaped stilts, a Sergeant Pepper figure toting an instrument out of Ted Geisel - a Seuss-ophone. For "Help!", four extreme athletes zoom up and over two U-shaped slides. Harrison's gorgeous "Here Comes the Sun" (which never sounded better) is accompanied by four...
...first time a President has left the U.S. while in office. On Dec. 10, T.R. wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending the Russo-Japanese War; he is the first American Nobel laureate. Finally, on Dec. 16, 1907, T.R. dispatches the "Great White Fleet" on a round-the-world voyage that he believes is "the most important service that I rendered to peace...
...know Theodore Roosevelt well from photographs--that round, fully fleshed face, that swelling neck, those teeth. How many people know that we have a record of his voice as well? During his 1912 presidential campaign, Roosevelt was recorded several times on Thomas Edison's wax-cylinder technology. His voice, it turns out, is not quite what you would expect from his pugnacious appearance. The tone is patrician, cultivated, almost professorial. It has accents not so different from the ones you hear in the voice of that other Roosevelt, Franklin. Old money courses through every syllable...
...Yanks seemed to have a new lease on life - particularly with Italy leading the Czech Republic in the game being played at the same time. Italy had to win in order for a U.S. victory over Ghana to send Bruce Arena's men into the next round, and it did, beating the Czech Republic...
...This has been portrayed as Round 15 in the fights over religion and science. It's the kind of thing that can make a parent crazy: you mean my child might be denied a potentially life-saving vaccine because it could sabotage an "abstinence only" message - which, as the National Organization for Woman suggested, "presumably relies on a fear of cancer death to promote abstinence...