Word: brilliante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candidates for cultural immortality, more or less lovingly revived in four colors from what used to be called the funny papers. In Volume I of Flash Gordon, that Yaleman for all seasons progresses from his crash landing on the planet Mongo with delicious but dumb Dale Arden and brilliant...
...Dunster Lysistrata adds several musical numbers which contribute to its lightweight impression. The music is entertaining, though there is nothing particularly brilliant about any of it. Sometimes the whole production takes on a high-schoolish air, but this usually doesn't last too long. The tone and content of the production sometimes approaches that blend of the cute, the childishly obscene and the genuinely funny that must have been present in '30s House productions with titles like Whore and Piece...
...introduced them at Watkins Glen as "the band with balls." Well, that was fine, but there was nothing distinctive about them except that they were uncorrupted and the best. Duane Allman might have been the finest white guitarist alive, but he was at heart a sideman, and often his brilliant work would get lost because his brother Gregg was singing. Gregg couldn't sing worth shit, but his voice had a sixties edge to it, a hint of hostility, which made it take over when it rose...
...Lenny Bruce Performance Film. This is Lenny Bruce's next-to-last nightclub performance, made at the time when he could only be booked in San Francisco. The camera is painfully close, and man, is he wasted. One brilliant critique of society (and here, the law, as he reads the transcript of one of his trials) after another, and all he can do at the end of each rap is give a beaten shrug and a desperate laugh and say, "Weird...
Brian ("Only the Lord Saves More Than Petro") Petrovek had a relatively easy night in the Crimson nets, as few of the Terrier shots got through to him. The Harvard defense was brilliant in blocking shots all evening. Only Rick Meagher and Mike Eruzione could put the puck behind Petrovek...