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MIRETTE ON THE HIGH WIRE by Emily Arnold McCully (Putnam; $14.95). In Mama's boardinghouse, little Mirette is surrounded by famous acrobats. None is more attractive than M. Bellini, a tightrope walker who has suddenly lost his courage. Mirette can restore it, but only if she accompanies him on his walk over the rooftops of Paris. Wistful watercolors evoke turn-of-the-century France, and the narrative is as taut as the high wire itself...
Kenneth R. Walker, an independent television producer and columnist, is a fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics...
...Melanie Stephens, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Greg Davis, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Kenneth Jarecke, Cynthia Johnson, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Steve Liss, Christopher Morris, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Robert Nickelsberg, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Anthony Suau, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...
...They're much better than last season, because they play with a lot more intensity on the boards," Holy Cross guard Bill Walker said...
...direction is not poor--it is just overenthusiastic. Among the many memorable scenes, the arrest of Conrade (Josh Walker) and Borachio (Michael Johnson) brilliantly conveys the stupid pomposity of Dogberry (Marc Jones) and the idiocy of his sidekicks on the nightwatch (Kitt Hirasaki and Alan Glazer). The complicated staging of the fight in the background in conjunction with Dog-berry's stirring monologue betrays thoughtful, original and energetic direction...