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Time Lag to Infinity. The sonic boom-boom room by Howard Jones was lined with aluminum panels that responded with chimes, thuds and snatches of live radio programs as viewers moved in front of light-sensitive holes in the panels. Spectators first wiggled their fingers in front of the holes...
IN 1933 Orson Welles wrote and illustrated a volume entitled Everybody's Shakespeare. That title, for all its overtones of Lambist heresy, may still indicate something about what is going on in Falstaff (Chimes at Midnight), the latest and finest of the director's screen adaptations of Shakespearean texts. For...
Since Kraft also happens to be Mehta's principal tympanist, it was not surprising that he made extra use of such percussion esoterica as roto-toms (a set of small tuned drums), muted gongs, anvils and Chinese wind chimes. What was unusual and effective, however, was the relaxed, jazzy...
Quiet Moonlighting. The Senator did manage to cushion his abrasiveness, and everything else was go, go, go. He added Indiana to the list of primaries he will enter. He talked so much that he exhausted his voice, needed the ministrations of a throat specialist. When not engaged in dead-serious...
Nonetheless, his students call him a great teacher.* "He has the ability," says one, "to pick a minute point of law and expand it, contract it, show its variations, its logic, its evolution. It's not the material that makes his courses; it's Gilmore." Another chimes in...