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...setting becomes 20th century Florida--specifically 50 miles due east of Orlando, at the Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral. Orlando is an astronaut, of course; the queen is a high-strung debutante; the prince, an infantry soldier; the shepherdess, a funky beach-bunny; and the magician, a project supervisor at Mission Control...
...much of Orlando's appeal lies in the sheer playfulness with which Sellars has approached it. Where the original staging calls for Zoroastro the magician to conjure up a fountain to hide a furtive lover, Sellar's project supervisor summons up a drinking fountain, from which Angelica casually takes a sip. In the conclusion of the original, when Zoroastro calls for a potion, he receives it from the claws of an eagle descending out of the sky. Sellars's Zoroastro receives his potion in the claws of The Eagle--the Apollo 11 lunar module, that is. (In both cases...
...present to the poor, the free cheese has its drawbacks. Needy recipients will have to scrape mold off some of the cheese, which has been stored in 150 warehouses or limestone caves in 35 states for as long as 18 months. But, insists Merritt Sprague, a commodity supervisor for the Department of Agriculture, "mold does not produce toxin that is harmful." Not much variety in the menu, either: the cheese, stored in 5-lb. loaves, is all processed cheddar, the kind sold in grocery stores as "American cheese...
When Darsee's supervisor asked to see his primary data, Darsee, who later admitted his falsification, took several electrocardiograms of a dog in a matter of minutes but labeled them as having been taken at different times over several weeks...
...When his supervisor suggested he stock up on waterbed patches, Greg Higgins, manager of Store 24, thought the man was crazy. But then Higgins reflected and realized that "when someone needs a waterbed patch, he really needs it," so he invested in a small shelf's worth. Sure enough, a couple of months later a woman came into the store at 2 a.m., looked around and exclaimed, "Oh, my God--you have them!" To Higgin's stupefaction, she bought two packages of patches. "How often does she expect the thing to get punctured?" he remembers wondering...