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Wilde, a seasoned war correspondent who has been dodging bullets since the French Indochina war, landed in time to witness the media circus that greeted the troops on the beach. "The Marines showed admirable restraint," says Wilde. He tells the story of one U.S. trooper, faced with a particularly irritating photographer who refused to obey orders to lie down and keep quiet, finally fingering the trigger of his M-16 and asking his gunnery sergeant in a whisper, "Shall I blow him away?" The answer was no. All journalists, even experienced ones like Wilde, have been bedeviled by kat-chewing...
...play deals with Ding Dong the Monkey and his Amazing Circus, and what happens to the fragile hierarchy of power within this little community when Ding Dong dies...
Ding Dong, an original play by Elijah Aron, brought a circus, complete with tent and side show freaks, to the Loeb Ex last weekend. Aron, a veritable Jack of All Trades, also directed, designed and performed the title song for this piece...
...Emerson Majestic Theater from the second week in December through January. Nutcracker is a funny ballet, because it's what people associate with ballet, but if you're an actual dancer, it's one of the easiest, most irritating ballets to do every year. It's almost a circus act. You're just wearing pretty costumes. It's not the ballet role of a career, but it's fun anyway...
...Some of you think you've come to a circus to watch a dancing bear," said the moderator cynically. Perhaps some had, but Malcolm X was no dancing bear, no exotic specimen of a Near-Eastern religion, no man to be clinically observed. --Benjamin W. Heineman...