Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...muscle-throbbing stomp set in the Negev, Choreographer Saddler rises above the dance-for-dance-sake motives of most musicals to salute the pioneer spirit. An artful change of pace from the robust to the exotic brings a Yemenite wedding ceremony, in which the color of spectacle-cloth-of-gold gowns, jeweled headdresses, a pinpricked panoply of tiny candles-is matched with the mystery of ancient ritual. The Broadwayward book relies heavily on soap operatics for the matrons' matinee trade, but much of the time Milk and Honey flows exuberantly and lyrically out of its native soil...
...Because the Harvard Faculty meets students in the Houses, Radcliffe must offer something similar to create Faculty-student relations. It cannot hope to venture into extensive programs of individually directed study as Sarah Lawrence did; it cannot adopt a highly student-centered curriculum; it can only cut Harvard's cloth to its own pattern...
...Hustler. A young poolshark (Paul Newman) takes on the old champion (Jackie Gleason) in a sort of chivalric joust of the cues on the Cloth of Green. Director Robert Rossen makes an uncouth theme breathe with a smoky poetry and sometimes ring true as a struck spittoon...
...speaking, is a long-shot money ball that will probably hit the public's pocket like a rocket and rack up an impressive score. Artistically speaking, it is an amusingly mangled myth, an epos in a pool hall, a ceremony of chivalric valor on the Field of the Cloth of Green...
...focused attention on objects that caught the spirit of the age of speed and steel. The Dadaists fractured tradition by denying all standards-at least in theory-of beauty; the surrealists took it as their privilege "to put everything completely out of place," and the collagists pasted paper, cloth, and other materials into pictures...