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...together, laying her head bravely on the block and rapping it three times to cue the executioner, as, by some accounts, Maria did. Going to one's death onstage is nothing new for any opera singer. But Sills somehow always manages to put new life into it. -William Bender...
...call him 'meatball' and 'spaghetti bender,' " Noonan and Corkery said...
...innumerable conversations, both intellectual and frivolous, and for student government and its concerns, they do very little which directly involves the academic responsibilities of either faculty or students. It has been hard to persuade the departments to take seriously even the slight responsibility which was prescribed (in the Bender Report of 1950) of assigning Sophomores in Economics, English, Government, History and Social Relations to tutors associated with the Houses in which they live. President Lowell would have been quick to level this criticism himself, since the Houses in their present situation suffer from the shipwreck of half his scheme...
...most gratifying and demanding role since then was in Husbands (1970), the tour de force about three middle-aged men on a desperation bender. He co-financed the film and co-starred with two of his best cronies, John Cassavetes and Ben Gazzara. In the self-conscious and easygoing Archie of Husbands, Falk found a character who was the image of his own half-studied, uncouth offstage self. A onetime "pool junkie" (the all-nighters over the billiard table may explain his hunched posture), Falk is still a steady gambler on "baskets, pro ball and the fights." Though his wife...
Last week, implausibly, the elf turned 75. To mark the occasion, there was a series of performances of his music (highlighted the week before when the Philadelphia Orchestra played Three Pictures for Orchestra in Philadelphia and New York). There was also a conversation with TIME Music Critic William Bender which, although it did not last until four in the morning, showed that Thomson has lost none of the old Virgilian knack...