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...nostalgia craze is on the wane in the theater, and Irene demonstrates what happens toward the end of such entertainment boomlets. The content becomes a commodity. Even though it is supposedly set in 1919, the year in which the original musical was produced, the show is not nostalgic about anything. It fails to evoke a mood, a tone, a memory of any clearly definable period or place. It is strictly a product of the Broadway showshops peddling nostalgia per se, just as they peddled nudity per se two or three seasons ago as another hot line of goods...
...passed, and much history. But social values don't change in three years--particularly those held by egoists. Even after one term of Nixonism, with another to come. Don Siegel's director cult is still ready to defend Dirty Henry for its mise on scene. Even if the film craze has slowly puttered out, every adolescent artiste still yearns for an Eclair or an Arriflex. The Village Voice has gotten slightly better--it featured some good convention coverage. Andrew Sarris has gotten slightly worse...
...dance marathon staged by New York's City Center? Was that doughty cultural impresario succumbing to the nostalgia craze reviving the 1920s stunts in which competing couples danced away the night-and the day, and sometimes the night again? Not quite. The City Center American Dance Marathon '72, which ended last week at Manhattan's ANTA Theater, was devoted more to the delights of diversity than to endurance. Over a period of six weeks, 20 of the most ruggedly individual dance companies in the U.S. matched style and idea in stalwart succession...
...medieval warriors used to unwind with a spirited round or two. The Pilgrim fathers had at it on the Mayflower. And even good King George VI and his wife Queen Elizabeth were known to have had a fling. Over the centuries, the venerable game of darts became such a craze, in fact, that in 1939, on the eve of World War II, the British House of Commons engaged in a heated debate over the banning of darts in Scottish pubs. Darting not only fostered "ne'er-do-wellism," a Scottish magistrate had ruled, but it was "a dangerous game...
...other mass retail outlets. No fewer than 50 U.S. firms have started making mini-calculators, which perform the four standard mathematical functions instantaneously, yet are small enough to fit inside a man's suitcoat pocket. But lately manufacturers and retailers trying to cash in on the calculator craze have found themselves drawn into a price war that may leave some of the industry's pioneers in the minus column...