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...Agassiz Theatre last weekend. (Needless to say, the HRDC standbys were there in force, hugging and kissing away; oh, where is our Hedda Hopper, our Liz Smith?) She sang ballads and love songs and novelty songs, slow songs and fast songs, Weill and Porter and Loewe and Bernstein, in addition to Gershwin and, what she said was her favorite (there's no accounting for such things), Sondheim. She strode on stage in front of the orchestra, futzed humorously with her red shawl, and broke right into "Nice Work If You Can Get It" without an awkward moment. She owned...
...choice of songs was largely excellent, including standards and some interesting sub-standards, like the Gershwin self-parody "Blah Blah Blah" and Leonard Bernstein's pattersong "I Can Cook Too." "Blah Blah Blah" particularly allowed deLima to camp it up, leading the audience in a sing-along while capering to the absurd lyrics. (The screen on which the lyrics were projected was a nice touch, too.) As for the four Sondheim songs, including three in a row at the end, they were not too big a price to pay for the rest -- which is saying quite...
...Wyoming Republican is perhaps the most high-profile individual to stay in Eliot House since conductor Leonard Bernstein '39, who was a visiting lecturer during the late 1970s...
They also played Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, a recent addition, and two entirely new pieces, Leonard Bernstein's Overture to Candide and Darius Milhaud's La Creation du Monde...
...writer Paul Johnson, in reviewing the history of Watergate and the Nixon Administration, suggested that Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein did a disservice to America and its interests by pursuing the story of a cheap burglary at the Democratic national headquarters until, in effect, the two reporters drove Nixon to an extremity much like suicide...