Word: cavortings
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...Pudding's mantel, manages to change a repugnant beast and a vicious sport into a joke. Tots in Tinseltown mocks elitism, the quest for social position and the opportunist money-grubbing that buys such status. O'Donnell's game is played by the Peabodies and the Woolworths, who cavort on stage, singing "We went and bought ourselves a lot of mystique..." The audience--Pudding members, patrons, and impressionable followers--love it. They clap and laugh at the lyrics thrown in their faces: Where the action is high-paced A million dollars can go to waste We've embraced its lack...
...Olympic-size swimming pool, a discotheque and a restaurant that served Mexico's finest French food, prepared by Emmanuel de Camp, once a chef at Maxim's. Post seemed close to achieving his ultimate vision: an ultra-exclusive preserve where the powerful and wealthy could retreat to cavort and contemplate...
...spear is a spear, and Fafner the dragon is a proper dragon-a 35-ft.-long by 15-ft.-high beauty of a monster that requires eight stagehands to operate. London's conception is not perfect: he may not put the Valkyries on wheels, but having them cavort like chorus girls is not an improvement. There is no bear for Siegfried to tug, alas, nor does Brünnhilde ride a horse into the pyre. But she does sleep on a genuine jagged peak-not just some symbolic platform. Reversing another current fashion, London puts light rather than gloom...
...suckers sitting in the audience can lessen the pain somewhat by singing along with "You're the Top." "Lot's Misbehave" and other Porter masterpieces. The plot is a typical romantic quadrangle between Shepherd, 'Reynolds, Kahn and a stereotyped greasy Italian gambler played by Diullio del Prete. They cavort between two hotel rooms, one mansion, several parks, two formal dances, one race course, a plethora of white Rolls Royces and the Lord and Taylor Ladies Room. Eventually everyone ends up with the right mate and lives happily ever after. The genre is basically Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers, with...
...mood. In the Royal's English version, choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton, it is like an animated John Constable landscape. The story tells of the romance between young Farmer Colas (Nureyev) and Lise (Merle Park), daughter of the ambitious widow Simone. With English country dancing and an intricate cavort around a Maypole, it is by no means all Nureyev's show. The familiar danseur noble, burning with erotic fervor, vanished. In his place was an impish rustic, playing cat's cradle, exploding from a stack of wheat bundles. At 36, Nureyev has acquired a new maturity...