Word: berserker
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...into the core of your memory. Hitchock's film, written by Raymond Chandler ("The Big Sleep," "Farewell, My Lovely," "The Long Goodbye"), is one of his best, with a sense of feverish fascinating demented activity instead of mere raw suspense. In a minor apocalypse a merry-go-round goes berserk near the end of the movie...
...Cabaret, a splendidly sleazy characterization that seemed to grow out of his years in the musical theater. Here he takes a considerable risk, moving in an entirely different direction. He has a lot of broad, bizarre business to carry off- like passing into a trance or going quickly, slightly berserk over a small incident-that is particularly troublesome because it must be made to look easy. Grey has worked out his character totally, from his fussy clothes to his eager, elusive eyes. When Wills floats off into a trance or plucks some bit of information out of the psychic void...
...this production a special bow should go to Director Stephen Porter, who keeps the pace as antic as a berserk windup toy. Should you care to get intoxicated on laughter, Chemin de Per is a madcap nightcap of a show. T.E.K
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, conductor; London; 3 LPs; $17.94. London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn, conductor; Angel; 3 LPs; $17.98). A typical instance of how the classical record industry can drive its customers berserk and eat up its own profits. The complete version of this score has been almost totally neglected since the LP's birth 25 years ago; now come two competing versions. Ah, free enterprise! Both sets manage to confirm that this is the finest evening-length ballet score since Tchaikovsky. Neither, as it happens, quite equals the poetry and passion of Charles Munch...
...Matisse's paper cutouts. In the foyers, no effort to mask and confuse the nobly strict curves of the roof ribs has been spared: one is met by a jumble of well-made but visually meaningless joinery, as if some gnome from the stingyback forests had gone berserk promoting the rarer Australian hardwoods...