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Instead of a social life, the young Virginia had her books. When she was not reading she was writing, at a peculiar four-foot desk, at which she stood to work, like a painter at an easel. "When I see pen and ink," she wrote to Lady Robert Cecil, "I can't help taking to it, as some people do to gin." This was her exercise and her liberation...
...Fruit Loops, and Ralston Purina is offering Fruity Freakies. Later this year Ralston will introduce Moonstones, a fruit-flavored cereal in crescent, star and sphere shapes, and Grins & Smiles & Giggles & Laughs, which (or so kids will be told) stream from the mouth of a "computer-type monster" named Cecil when his "funny bone" is tickled. New brands of presweetened cereals frequently have a short life: Post's Pink Panther Flakes, Quaker Oats' Quake Quangaroos and General Mills' Baron von Redberry have all been introduced and then dropped in the past four years...
Spellman wrote best when he wrote about black music and the people who make it. His close association with the greatest black musicians, including pianist Cecil Taylor, and master saxophonists Jackie McLean, Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane, gave him an insight into what it means to be a black artist in America...
Still it was not a perfect Traviata. Created nine years ago by Director Alfred Lunt and Designer Cecil Beaton, this production has Violetta's bedroom looking like a barn in winter-something Walt Disney might have conceived in homage to Charles Addams. Because the windows are so high and remote, the poor girl cannot even get to the win dow to watch the revelers in the last act. The current stage director, Fabrizio Melano, has not really resolved all the old problems: the Baron's challenge to Alfredo in Act III, for example, comes off much too tame...
...follow splat falls; dreamy waltzes erupt in staccato spasms of movement. With deadpan wit, 16 girls perform precise glisses while their heads wobble like windup dolls. All at once 30 dancers are onstage, twisting, wiggling, milling about in all directions. It is a Hollywood climax in the tradition of Cecil B. DeMille, but the heart and humor of it belong to the choreographer...