Strike two! bawled the umpire. I threw the pill back to Tom with a heart which drummed above the noise of the rooters along the side lines.

[…]a little red-skirted, silver-laced, black-bodiced, snow-sleeved, and chemisetted bergère, leading out or bringing home her troop of goats;[…]

But the production does have a couple of visual coups de théâtre, including a final one in which past and present (or present and future) come together in a tableau wherein it is impossible to distinguish between actors and their projected, hologramlike images.

A barber shop in Yencheng, Kiangsu province, had to close down for self-examination because one impatient cadre couldn't get a haircut.…The barbers offered that arrangement could be made immediately to give the district bureau chief the haircut he wanted, but the cadre had now changed his mind. “I wouldn’t let any of you cut my hair even if all the other barbers in Yencheng were dead,” he said, then added: “You all are outrageous. None of you know how to serve customers. This place must be closed tomorrow for a thorough re-evaluation."