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...moments that survive the delirium of Clayton's staging. He shoots the love scenes in gauzy soft focus. Everything gleams: bracelets, sunlight on glasses, leaves on trees, even eyeballs. This is at best. At worst, when Clayton photographs the lovers dancing together in a vast, empty ballroom or kissing, their images reflected in a goldfish pond, he seems to have lapsed into some middle ground between self-parody and self-flagellation...
...Prague; March 29, 1939, Franco claims victory over the Spanish Loyalists; September 1, 1939, Germany invades Poland. But on the inner pages of The Crimson, editorials urged strict neutrality and isolationism for the United States, and reviews and advertisements urged students to forget and to be frivolous. Ads for ballroom dancing lessons as well as special offers for "Tux or Tails" for a mere $35 reflect Harvard's version of the national passion for dancing. (Favorite songs for 1939 included "Deep in a Dream," "Wishing," and "I Didn't Know What Time It Was.") Meanwhile, Time magazine records the fact...
...Ford ate with and spoke to the Republicans at the Sheraton that night, a crowd of about 500 demonstrators gathered outside, chanting "No more years." In the Constitution Ballroom, where the vice president feasted, the shouts could not be heard...
...lots of brass and percussion, the usual guitars, bass, and piano, and a female lead singer. Some of these folks were members of at least one of Cambridge's better groups of the last few years. And surely, the price is right. Friday, March 15 at the Hotel Continental Ballroom, 8:30 p.m., free...
...persuaded Manhattan's Chelsea Theater Center to be the resident repertory company in the Academy's small (250 seats) fourth-floor theater (the facilities also include a 2,200-seat opera house, a 1,200-seat music hall and a 125-ft.-long grand ballroom). A year later, the Chelsea company's production of LeRoi Jones' Slaveship was so successful that it moved to off-Broadway after its three-week Brooklyn run. The same thing happened to a 1971-72 production of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera and a 1973 Academy staging...