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...reconception involves very little change in the text -- some tinkering and one new song -- but a top-to-bottom rethinking of attitude. The intention of composer Lloyd Webber, lyricist-librettists Don Black and Christopher Hampton, choreographer Bob Avian and director Trevor Nunn was always to echo Billy Wilder's astringent film. In London, however, the team confused fidelity to the plot with fidelity of tone...
Charles Dickens: The Man Who Had Great Expectations, by Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema (Morrow; $15). Here's a fine choice for a book-loving older child. The story Dickens lived was as dramatic as any he wrote, and the literate text of this fascinating biography deals gently but firmly with his chaotic childhood and disastrous marriage, his spectacular success and the appalling condition of the poor. Detailed illustrations bring 19th century England to life for the young time traveler...
...Fifth Circuit in New Orleans ruled that prayer was permissible at graduation ceremonies if it was nonproselytizing, nonsectarian, student initiated and student led. Thus, when students approached him about praying in school, the principal, a born-again Christian, allowed them to take a vote on the issue. Moreover, the text of the prayer read at Wingfield High refers to no specific religion or god. Knox, however, ignored a school lawyer's warning that he was contravening the Constitution. After the prayer was read, Knox was placed on leave and then fired. The former principal, citing the Court of Appeals decision...
...accompanying text says that the bears "represent art, society, government and history--all dead or dying in the foul, putrid, maggot-ridden, useless stench pool of the present...
...whereas the latter provide explanations of objects on the screen, WFW shortcut menus, activated by clicking the right mouse button over a screen element (such as text or toolbar), allow you to access functions associated with that object without going to the main menu...