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...these people are heading in the right direction in terms of format. Last year's White Sale, the Timothy Mayer-Bradley Burg-Tim Hunter "cabaret for Cambridge," applied the same structured, mixed-media approach to the same type of political issues. Certainly White Sale provide that the from can provide an evening of excitement, intellectually and theatrically. If the Light Company keeps at it, they might yet come up with something just as great...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The Light Company | 1/13/1969 | See Source »

...format, the show is a musical review. The song texts are Mr. Mayer's and the excellent music was composed by Bradley Burg. In content, it is both the record of a day in Cambridge, from late morning rising til next morning's dawn, and a series of forays into political analysis, artistic exorcism, historical recreation, lyric and comic experiment. Informal in atmosphere, the action of White Sale is remarkable for the case and familiarity with which seemingly disparate ideas, styles, and techniques move together on its stage. These actors, who both take parts in individual sequences and retain strong...

Author: By Peter Jaszi, | Title: White Sale | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. War- burg Professor of Economics, said last night, "this is a major victory for the Senator [McCarthy], and no one should think differently. Johnson could not win. As a result Senator McCarthy has his first state delegation...

Author: By Robert M. Krim, | Title: Johnson Off Mass. Ballot; McCarthy On | 3/6/1968 | See Source »

...last October's Manhattan sculp ture festival, Artist Claes Oldenburg hired two professional gravediggers to shovel out a coffin-sized hole in Central Park, then fill it up again. Olden burg thereupon solemnly proclaimed the result a buried, invisible sculpture. Last month it was time for the West Coast's retort. At Los Angeles' Century City, three young artists constructed a sculpture that disappeared slowly before the spectators' eyes, vanishing without a trace within 24 hours. The form: a 110-ft.-long, 15-ft.-wide, 22-in.-high labyrinth. The material: dry ice, shaped into blocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Evaporating Environments | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

...spends six weeks abroad rounding up Swiss bell ringers, Japanese jugglers and enough animals to stock the Bronx Zoo, including such rare species as a water-skiing elephant and a piano-playing dog. For many years, his scout on the Chicago vaudeville circuit was the late Poet Carl Sand burg. "He got us the Australian woodchopper act," says Sullivan proudly, "and the fellow who stitches his fingers together with a needle and thread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Variety Shows: Plenty of Nothing | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

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