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...promises a return to pre-eminence this year under a new artistic director, Lord Harewood, 38, music-critic cousin of Queen Elizabeth. With John Osborne's Luther (see above), he will present the Bristol Old Vic's version of Lawrence Durrell's Sappho and Wolf (Expresso Bongo) Mankowitz' adaptation of Friedrich Duerrenmatt's Frank V, described as the "musical history of a private bank." Then there is also the famed Edinburgh "Fringe"-small, independent productions that sprout by the dozen (about 60 last year), have no official connection with the festival, and often include some...
Then a second band broke into a number that goes, "Indonesia is free-cha cha cha." Sukarno grabbed Nina Khrushchev for a partner. Nikita leaped up himself, waggled through a few steps, took a bongo drum and thumped it for a while. Then he seized Sukarno's silverheaded marshal's baton and began leading the band. Sukarno said he would expect some new Soviet credits in return...
...good deal of pacing to do, which it does largely out of step not only with itself but with its words and Jeremy Johnston's admirable and elegant music. Part of this, admittedly, can't be their fault, for the music and the offensive patter of what must be bongo drums are all hollowly issuing from a tape somewhere in the ceiling; it would throw anyone off. The only remotely appealing sight during the choral odes is Gustav Solomons' dancing, which is interesting but seems entirely out of place...
...undergraduate hangouts were closed early on police orders. On top of that, Jade Beach, traditionally the scene of wholesale woo after dark, was declared off limits. Worst of all, the girls were in dismayingly short supply, outnumbered 10 to 1 by the boys. Any small diversion-someone playing a bongo drum, a girl dancing the limbo-attracted hundreds of listless onlookers. Joseph Penar, a bearded student from Illinois State Normal University, shinnied up a coconut palm one day, for lack of something better to do. "When I got to the top," he reported, "I looked down and saw 300 kids...
Though his menu lists such exotic items as Bongo Bongo Soup, Javanese Sate and Bah-Mee, they are really American versions (or inventions) for American palates. "Take a Tahitian pudding made with arrowroot," says the Trader. "It's so tough you can throw it and use it as a handball. Or take a squab. In the average Chinese restaurant, that little fella comes out with his dead eyes staring you in the face. When the customer sees that naked head and the beak and the eyes, he wants no part of it. We chop the neck off it, barbecue...