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...life, and early on the Duke developed an ability to compose anywhere-restaurants, buses, hotels, even taxis. He wrote his first big hit, Mood Indigo, in 15 minutes while waiting for his mother to fix dinner. Many of his early works shimmered with exotic "jungle" colors, achieved through the clever use of mutes, slurs and growls, that were intended to romanticize the African roots of jazz. Later works such as Warm Valley and Dusk took on subtle pastels and sophisticated shapes. Ellington's style and reputation eventually transcended jazz, and he even performed with major symphony orchestras...
...title role, Jim Dale is the traditional wily scamp of a servant. He is sassy, resourceful and clever, the sort of endearing rogue who puts his fat, pompous and moneyed betters in their places. At the behest of two lovelorn sons with two miserly fathers, Scapino engineers an endless repertory of deceptions with a blazing battery of slapstick. Whether mimicking the two dunderheaded old fossils, or mulcting them, or pretend-hiding them in sacks and flailing the daylights out of them with a cloth truncheon shaped like an oversize bologna, there is no stopping Scapino. Eventually caught...
Shevelove has peppered the script with contemporary theatrical in-jokes and quizzical one-liners. As the god of wine and drama, Dionysus quips: "A little wine will get you through a lot of drama." One knows by past performance that the Sondheim lyrics are contrapuntally clever and that his music is astringently bittersweet, but the acoustics round the pool do not permit absolute proof. If Yale should opt for participatory theater, the show could close with a gorgeously refreshing swim-in. · T.E. Kalem
...then Ambassador to the U.N.]. Lodge was a middle-aged man-tall and strapping. He told me he'd been an officer in the war. According to our system, his rank would have been major general. Lodge and I got to know each other well. He was a clever man, but I can't say the same for the policies he's always stood for. I'd say he is an intelligent official of a not-so-intelligent government. When it came to politics, there was never any doubt that he belonged to the Republican Party...
...fiction prize with Isaac Bashevis Singer's A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories, Comedian Corey confused the assembled authors, critics and publishers with a frenetic routine, prompting some to think that he was really the reclusive Pynchon himself. Others believed that his performance was a clever parody of Pynchon's tortuous style. The ceremonies were not all fun and games. Poetry co-winners were Allen Ginsberg and Adrienne Rich. Ginsberg's standin, Poet Peter Orlovsky, clad in a T shirt covered with grim statistics from the Viet Nam War, quoted Ginsberg: "There is no longer...