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...crack shot, Ruark has given up big-game hunting, explains: "I've just lost the taste for seeing things die." He still rambles off on safaris, photographing the big game and potting birds for dinner. (His barstool story is that his white hunter imitates a lovelorn female rhino, and when a nearsighted male rumbles toward the sound, Ruark hangs his hat on the beast's horn and the hunter slaps a Ritz Hotel sticker on its behind.) Ruark will spend the next few months "doing all of Africa" for the Scripps-Howard newspapers, because "I have a hunch...
...Chevy Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.) For the second time this year Dinah Shore presents Mike Nichols and Elaine May, the barstool-to-barstool comedy team and wittiest dialectical immaterialists in show business...
...Pianist Cy Coleman's Playroom. on West 58th Street, attracts some of the jazz buffs the Bohemia gets, some of the social and theatrical crowd the East Side clubs angle for, and some neighborhood barstool habitues. Coleman. a 27-year-old former child prodigy from The Bronx, decided to launch the room chiefly because he lived up the street, wanted a nearby showcase for his piano, and was tired of working for other people. He signed up a drummer and a bass player, opened seven months ago. He plays when the urge hits him or when the unadorned, beige...
UNDER MILK WOOD, by Dylan Thomas, was pronounced the richest theatrical event of the season by at least one Manhattan critic when the late Welsh poet rendered it as a barstool reading. In print, it emerged brilliantly as an earthy, mockingly tender account of a village's single day of living, loving and leaving, recorded with a devoted hi-fi ear for the sounds of speech, of the sea and of the soul...
...come to no other conclusion than that you deliberately made your Notre Dame football hero cover picture your corniest in years, filled the story with a collection to end all collections of the humdrum idiocies of professional sports, spicing it with the phony baloney, barstool oratory, synthetic manliness, and parroting of "statistics" and "history" by the sports...