Word: chillness
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...foreign musical ever to hit Broadway. In the previews, which begin this week, these 30 young show people-and their mentors, Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, Director Trevor Nunn and Choregrapher Gillian Lynne-will be workng to turn this $4 million production into a Broadway hit. Says Lynne with a chill of anticipation: "It's like Americans doing Shakespeare and taking it to England...
...except with a clockface drawn over the insignia and the words TICK, TICK written across it. Holmes happens to be 32, Cooney 25. As he had planned for weeks, Cooney bided the time during the referee's instructions by staring at the champion's belly, trying to chill him with the thought of body punches. And Holmes did show considerable respect throughout, jabbing away from a politic distance and flinching from all hooks whether or not they landed. Holmes may not be Ali or Louis, but he is a cunning boxer of surpassing grace and skill, better than...
...Wichser incident was obviously meant to serve as a warning to foreigners, and any nationals who might befriend them, to chill such contacts. The Chinese xenophobia reached a peak during the Cultural Revolution but eased in 1976 after the death of Mao Tse-tung. Indeed, Mao's successors "rectified" the error of his fear of foreigners by encouraging association with them as a basis for learning. At the time, of course, contact could be controlled: the diplomats lived in compounds, the foreign press was cautious, and the students and teachers who came were mostly believers in the Maoist revolution...
...tinkering with his cars, she starts tinkering with his best friend. One cannot help sympathizing with her; it is clear that she is seeking human warmth more than sexual heat. But, it develops, she also has a taste for revenge. Why shouldn't Al feel some of the chill she endured all those years with him? When she moves out she forbids him access to their daughter, and the maneuver sends him in short, beautifully logical steps up the scale of frustration from startled hurt to an outrage that is almost lethally self-destructive...
...claimed so much for himself: "Of the universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation ... A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world." Emerson was also a bundle and knot of contradictions. He recoiled against the doctrinal chill and constriction of New England, yet he became a sermon and a prayer. His rhapsodies were lovely and extremist in the way of a Puritan metaphysician: "I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall." -By Lance Morrow