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...Rink, the Kander-Ebb musical that opened last week on Broadway, is set on the ragged fringe of the New York show-biz world: in a Coney Island of the mind where Anna Antonelli's roller-skating rink is about to be demolished, and with it Anna's sour memories of life with her runaway Lothario of a husband and her painfully shy daughter Angel. Terrence McNally's script might suggest a domestic minidrama swathed in poignancy-A Tree Grows in Brooklyn mixed with Terms of Endearment. But from the moment the curtain rises on Peter Larkin...
...obsessed, as a painter, with the bodies of women, quoting them in whole and in detail, with a unique mingling of distance, intimacy, lust, humor and spite. In them, the billowy amplitude of Rubens' flesh is sometimes reborn, along with the sardonic affection Reginald Marsh felt for his Coney Island cuties. But the women of the early '50s are his canonical ones-part archaic Ishtar, part Amsterdam hooker and part Marilyn. Their most menacing attribute is their smile, originally cut from a LIFE magazine ad and stuck on; in Woman and Bicycle, 1952-53, there are two smiles...
...vows, yearning to become fresh pencil lead." Noting that the last Ice Age stopped around Ebbets Field, vanished home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, he writes: "When a long-ball hitter hit a long ball, it would land on Bedford Avenue and bounce down the morainal front to roll toward Coney on the outwash plain. No one in Los Angeles would ever hit a homer like that...
Besides the long flashbacks, there is nothing particularly experimental about the filming itself. The friendship between Stingo and the couple, for instance, develops through a fairly traditional quick succession of lyrical scenes--the three dancing, picnicking on the Hudson, whirling through Coney Island, walking to the top of a floodlit bridge. The sex scenes are carefully elliptical--more so than the book and the Auschwitz sequence, while suggesting horrors, discreetly avoids trying to show the unspeakable. The score is as lush as scenery and plot. The near-perfection with which everything fits together, technically and artistically, may be what...
...soccer team struggled to a disappointing 1-1 draw with Boston, University yesterday in a match in which the quality of play and the booter's intensity moved like a Coney Island roller coaster--up, down, and round and round...