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and lights up the stage whenever she appears in Carousel.

Now, I love Tebaldi singing “If I Loved You,” so if Fleming had gotten really operatic with those great songs she’s got that would have been OK, but nevertheless she reined herself in to no more than operetta-dimension amplitude.

Choreographer Justin Peck and/or director Jack O’Brien gave her some nifty wending around the stage, but since she can do everything–including speak lines with sufficient conviction and dexterity–why not have her twirl into a few more kinetic as well as vocal turns?

Facebook and Zuckerberg have more than shown their true colors: they are another major threat to American democracy.

Jake Johnson in Common Dreams responds to the alarms being sounded by Zuckerberg’s partnering with a Koch-funded plutocract’s club to attempt control over what vision of reality will be permitted Facebook members.

“This is alarming,” independent journalist Rania Khalek concluded in a tweet on Thursday. “The Atlantic Council—which is funded by gulf monarchies, western governments, NATO, oil and weapons companies, etc.—will now assist Facebook in suppressing what they decide is disinformation.”

If only.

With Gina Haspel’s confirmation, the U.S. has reached rock bottom.

And we can still go lower.

What with Patricia Wilde’s discipline and intellectual curiosity —

Wilde was here last week to tape for the Balanchine Foundation, reunited with Robert Barnett to scrutinize the roles they danced together in Bourree Fantasque and Western Symphony six decades ago.

While here, she recalled how brother-in-law Roger Shattuck, scholar of French literature and culture, recommended that Wilde read Proust, an author about whom he wrote quite a lot.

Wilde duly bit the bullet and read the six volumes, all the time dancing away with New York City Ballet.

She probably should re-read them today, she said; she’d be able to read through more slowly.

The latest Pruitt revelations demonstrate in excelsis what this party and this president and this cabinet of gargoyles are doing to us.

How’d you like those anti-Semitic World of Trump freak show tele-clerics delivering the key note addresses at the Embassy opening?

Have you fucking lost your mind, Sen. Schumer?

And I agree with Katie Halper:

“As a Jew, I’d like to thank Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer for proving that we can be just as bigoted, backwards & Islamophobic as Donald Trump. If we kill them, do they not bleed?”

This is why the red-state Democrats aren’t going to get re-elected.

McCaskill says she’s going to continue to fight “the worst parts” of Trump’s agenda.

Why aren’t you fighting against all the parts of Trump’s hideous agenda?

Which parts of Trump’s agenda do you not think are worth opposing?

Which parts of Trump’s agenda are you in favor of?

Defy the criminal, apocalyptic insanity of BoltonTrump, circle the wagons and vanquish their determination to induce Iran to produce nuclear weapons.

Because this summer Veronika Part is teaching at the Fadeyev Ballet Academy on Long Island.