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The few who find the production enchanting claim, "It is hard to think of another American opera composed with a comparable degree of musical sophistication and sheer virtuoso compositional chops" (Richard Dyer, the Boston Globe ). Even the negative reviews give grudging respect to the opera, with the New York Times ' Bernard Holland admitting that it "may also be the victim of the inflated expectations surrounding it."
But what's important about Britannica's most recent screw-up--it opened its revamped Web site for business two weeks ago and then immediately shut it down because the sheer volume of traffic crashed the site--is not just that it shows how ill-equipped to deal with the Internet most big companies remain.
The studio's newest feature-length cartoon outstrips even The Lion King (1994) in sheer promotional hype: a Fifth Avenue parade, fireworks over the Hudson, as well as the usual McDonald's and cereal-box tie-ins.
These aspects of language are social, philosophical, artistic, largely ignored by linguists, sometimes out of devotion to what is perceived as the scientific method, sometimes out of sheer philistinism and the inability to exercise taste, sometimes out of abject ignorance.
When Baltus Van Tassel (Michael Gambon), the town's richest citizen, intones the story of the Hessian who lopped the heads off revolutionaries for sheer love of butchery, the flashback is mythic in its ghastliness: Christopher Walken--his hair swept up, with boiled eggs for eyes and teeth like sharp spikes--wheels, hacks, impales, and drenches the snow with gore.
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