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Saddler's first sequence has Louise (Dancer Patricia Birsh) weaving about George (Thomas Hasson) in a brash, hip-flicking dance of courtship culminating in a clinch and Louise's exit in Georges arms. "Nobody saw us," he says as he returns breathless to the stage. In the second incident, Alice (Maria Karnilova) rips off her nightgown, thrusts and twists about the stage in a wonderful pantomime of alternate abandon and frustration, finally offers herself to a stranger. "I don't care who he is as long as he is alone," she says, but she is rejected...
...bulk, with the ballast variously composed of universities, small Southern towns, and writers' colonies in Arizona and New Mexico. Most of the little magazines are part of a post-war inflation for the avant garde. In the general confusion which gave culture the Beat, Silent, Sad, Brown, and Breathless Generations, art and intellectual vomit (the boundary has been transgressed) have prospered if not much improved...
City after city hoisted Bienvenida Filarmónica street banners. Seats to the concerts were in such short supply that they were hawked for as much as $30 apiece. Whatever the program, audience and critics were invariably breathless at the Philharmonic's high professional gloss. Wrote a Santiago critic: "The orchestral interpretation is simply marvelous, with a perfection to which Chile has never been exposed." Said a rapt Rio critic: "We never heard such beauty before...
...hoofing for two weeks at the Hotel Tropicana to ease the pinch of losing his TV income from the canceled Walter Winchell File. Spectacular billboards glutted the highways for 300 miles around Las Vegas (and up and down Hollywood's Sunset Strip), radio stations spewed his own breathless announcements all over the West, the Tropicana was laden with huge photographs of Winchell hovering near President Eisenhower (caption: "The only reporter allowed this close...
...Charles Street Theater's stage is little larger than a wrestling ring, with the audience almost embarrassingly close to the action. Fortunately the stage is never called upon to accommodate more than two principals in each scene, except during scene changes, which are as breathless as the dramatic action and appropriately effected by scurrying chamber maids...