Word: crisps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play, being a Renaissance-styled script, has other symmetrically balanced pairs in its cast. The young lovers Demetrius (John Cunningham) and Lysander (Ted Graeber?) are admirably matched, the crisp delivery of the former matching the sonorous timbre of the latter. It is not their fault that they fail to convey much individuality; Shakespeare was interested in their situations, not their personalities...
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Author Neil Simon has taken a plot as bland as a potato, sliced it into thin bits-and made it as hard to resist as potato chips. Jane Fonda, Robert Redford and Mildred Natwick are also crisp...
...could have been a scene from the late '30s, when Goodman's cheerfully crisp, driving style made him the King of Swing and started a new era in American music. Actually, it was Goodman's opening night last week at Manhattan's Rainbow Grill, high in the 70-story RCA Building. Typical of his sentimental sojourns into jazz in recent years, it created a momentary illusion that nothing much had changed. The dancers were mostly of the generation that grew up with him back when cats were hep instead of hip. The tunes were such period...
...correct the record where Sir Har old's information was faulty, or where a dinner anecdote is constructed out of whole tablecloth. But the diarist's perceptions of people, from Churchill to De Gaulle to a rising Tory named Harold Macmillan, are always close-up and marvelously crisp and sharp. And the mood of an embattled nation is mirrored in all its nuances through the changing fortunes...
Persichetti's Spring Canata, a setting of four poems by e.e. cummings for women's chorus, was in contrast vivid and lively. Vaughn Williams's In Windsor Forest, the most voluptous piece on the program, was also the best performed. Kay Tolbert's crisp solo in "The Conspiracy" and the chorus' rendition of the dreamy meanderings of the "Wedding Chorus" were perfectly natural and uninhibited. So were the two spirituals at the end of the program; Archie Epps in "Ride on King Jesus" created a lilting pulse that was still with me long after the concert. And in Britten...