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...This is really crummy," Stilgoe said. "This is a required text...If the Coop isn't paying its bills, this could destroy confidence in placing textbook orders with the Coop...
WHERE DOES IT GO? by Margaret Miller (Greenwillow; $14). Where does Justin put his toothbrush? Through the apple? On the teddy bear? No, he puts it in his mouth! More instructions follow, about the placement of books, bicycles, pillows and dolls. The text tries a little too hard to be nonsexist, but the photographs are pleasing and the lessons are painless...
...Wilbur's production mixes merriment and zaniness with some fine acting. It opens with lively caroling (as befits the title). Yuletide favorites pepper the performance, accompanied by a (loud) solo organ. Immediately a few narrators quote Dickens's text verbatim; adapter/director Larry Carpenter has no intention of inflating this into anything but a story...
...also wanted to show the kinds of works [the society] exhibited at the time...So I went through the catalogs at the Fogg and picked out things for the exhibition and then did research on those works of art and the artists, so I could write the text for the labels on the walls...
These lines (from the final stanza of "It Must Be Sophisticated") blend the anxiety of the poet (will my work ultimately do anything new?) with the anxiety of the reader: have I, in this text, discovered anything...