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...excellent example is the case of Kevin Bein '70. Bein had been active in high-school gymnastics in his senior year, and he decided to come to Harvard despite its lack of facilities. As a freshman, he worked out on his own in the IAB until the rings he was swinging on broke...
HAIR. The Public Theater Cast Recording (RCA Victor) and the Broadway Cast Recording (RCA Victor). Last season, off-Broadway's Public Theater presented a tribute to the hyphenated generation with a fullscale, turned-on, freaked-out, pro-love, antiwar, love-rock bein. Billed as an American tribal rock musical, Hair made up in exuberance for what it lacked in finesse. Hitting the Broadway boards via a discotheque, it developed a larger cast of "hippies," a more forced spontaneity, a more self-conscious spirit. Recordings by both casts reflect the differences. The Public Theater cut is not as fully orchestrated...
...music and rock) where they "jest set" and tip back straight shots of bourbon. Arguments start, fists and knives flail, blood is spilled. As one Appalachian woman complained recently, while her kids played games with the mice that infest her apartment, "Daddy's gone, and I'm tired of bein' a nobody, a nothin...
...every dang one of his relations accompanies him on a instrument. There's Mom (Janet Blair), Dad (Buddy Ebsen) and eight kids so durn sweet you could eat 'em up, cep'n they'd cause diabetes. Wai, 'fore you know it everybody's bein' as colorful as a cartoon, droppin' g's, singin' passels of ungrammatical songs (" 'bout you, 'bout me, 'bout us, 'bout we") and pronouncin' just about ev-erythin' on the fust syllable: Ree-pub-lican, convention, Yew-nited States, till...
...Casino Royale, "the utter boring vacuity of the put-on carried to excess." Among gross literary excesses there was, happily, Marshall McLuhan's "losing battle with the English language," and The Story of O, "unarguably the dullest dirty book ever written."* Finally, there were all the "Ins" (the bein, the kissin, the wedin, the dance-in, the shop-in, the drinkin, the love-in, the sing-in), and-with unerring glee-the moaning over the Generation...