Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MacLaine (played with charm and chill by David Essex, himself a British pop star) goes a long way on a modest talent. Some of his success is sheer luck; most can be traced to the general craziness of the times, when a boy from the north could become a crown prince on the strength of one good tune or two. Stardust picks up in 1964, and MacLaine and his group, the Stray Cats, seem modeled on the Beatles. They jump from being a bunch of good-time lads playing dungeons in Liverpool to the very top of the pops...
...they will tell you, was designed for, and is most suited to original work. It's true--the versatility that is the Ex's charm encourages Innovation. And for most smaller-scale drama, the Ex is great. But to try to produce a full-scale musical there could be like booking the HRO for a concert in the Cafe Pamplona. Not only would the necessity of a large stage reduce the already small theater's audience capacity to about twenty, but the Ex is obviously acoustically wrong for large choruses. So recently, musicals have turned up sometimes in Agassiz Theater...
...SOCIAL MOBILITY: The charm of Britain has always been the ease with which one can move into the middle class. It has never been simply a matter of income, but of a whole attitude to life, a will to take responsibility for oneself-the middle-class morality that Shaw despised so much. We need those who are going to save money, who are going to do things for themselves...
...later years took the form of an obsession with birds, provided him with a focus and an organizing principle for his music that other 20th century composers have lacked. Because he no longer needed to search for self-definition with each work, he felt free to write music to charm and involve...
Nathan writes with a certain dis taste for Mishima - which is natural enough since Mishima was, for all his exuberance and charm, a squirmingly unpleasant character; his brilliance had the phosphorescence of decay. All his life, he was explicitly and erotically in love with death. Suicide was the only act, he believed, that could make him comprehend his own existence. Just after Mishima disemboweled himself, his mother said: "This was the first time in his life that Kimitake [Mishima] did something he always wanted to do. Be happy...