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...life," Tom Lehrer is a fairly tall, modest man who looks about twenty-five, and is mild-mannered enough to bring home to Mother. His apartment on Sparks St. is not arty, just a little crowded. Books and records are stacked around the room and on the mantelpiece stands bric-a-brac suggestive of his work: a rubber "dead hand" (I Hold Your Hand in Mine), a skeleton, a model of the "World Tree" in which he has stuck a dustmop, and a flowery piece of crockery labeled "Opium" (The Old Dope Peddler). He has a much pleasanter voice than...
...snug, overstuffed parlor of early 19th century optimism, Poe played Hamlet to his own ghost, and it is sometimes difficult to separate the poet from the poltergeist who tipped over the stuffed birds, broke the bric-a-brac and put the ladies into a flutter. It is the thesis of Veteran Biographer Frances Winwar (Coleridge, the Wordsworths, Byron, Shelley, Keats) that Poe's "ghoul-haunted" imagination has contemporary validity. For all its outmoded idiom (castles, princesses, etc.) Poe's death-obsessed verse speaks true today. In this admirable biography, Author Winwar lets a hundred well-informed witnesses speak...
...hottest form of advertising promotion is the giveaway. This year U.S. businesses will hand out $16 million worth of appliances, cars, cameras and bric-a-brac on 22 network shows seen by most of the nation's 43 million TV homes, and 250 local radio and TV programs. So popular are the shows that this week CBS and NBC each will add three new TV giveaway programs. NBC and ABC will start two more later in July...
...milk bar and an outdoor tea garden. There is a penny arcade with a rock-'n'-roll-playing jukebox for the Teddy Boy set, a maze, a miniature train and pony rides for the children. While the ladies can load up at the souvenir shop on bric-a-brac bearing the ducal coat of arms, the men can attend a peepshow called "Ten Beautiful Models in Color and 3-D." Finally, for the benefit of all, there is the duke himself, always around to greet his "guests," to pose for pictures, sign autographs and even judge skiffle contests...
...tore out neon street lighting and substituted antique carriage lanterns, got Cathedral Square temporarily deconsecrated so intermission-coffee tables could be placed outside the adjacent theater. At the same time, a group of townsmen dug out a row of medieval shops, now stocked with modern paintings and Italian bric-a-brac. Facelifting and the scheduled productions have cost roughly $250,000, and even with private and foundation support, Menotti is not sure yet whether he will break even...