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...kindness inside Pernod bottles, Irma La Douce endows its harmless story with a nice tingle of iniquity, even a certain mixture of sweetness and bite. Now and then the gags and goings-on go sour, or the story droops: Nestor-Oscar, for example, outwears its welcome. But under Peter Brook's brilliant direction, most of Irma moves remarkably fast, with the advisable speed of things outside the law and people on the lam-or it kicks its heels with Parisian verve and pertness. Marguerite Monnot's score has a gay street-music tinniness that can have resonance...
...addition to his University post, Reynolds has held a seat on the board which supervises the activities of the Brook-haven National Laboratory...
...play finds no destination as that it fails to dramatize the very lack of one. What The Fighting Cock needed, in the face of an all but preordained intellectual stalemate, was a greater emotional leverage, a more vibrant dramatic charge. Rex Harrison is a top actor and Peter Brook a top director. But whether it is the part's fault or the player's, the general is not an expressive enough figure. And whether it is the production's fault or the play's, The Fighting Cock needs both more thrust and more evocativeness, a right...
...that once blared Splish Splash, Dream Lover, Hey, Little Girl and High School Sweater have started turning to less frenzied numbers such as Delia Reese's Don't You Know and Johnny Mathis' Misty, plus the effusions of such reformed rockers as Paul Anka, Bobby Darin, Brook Benton. Back into pop records went the sound of shimmering strings, down went the beat. Of the top ten pop hits last week, only three were out-and-out rock 'n' roll. In Manhattan, Sam Goody's famed record shops reported a 40% drop in rock...
Distribution Points. In Saint Simeon, Canada, which gets its water supply from a small mountain lake, housewives complained that brook trout were coming out of their faucets...