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...along with the car radio in a voice that sounded like a gargling cello. He pulled out a great smokestack of a cigar, passed it beneath his nose, pierced one end, lit it, puffed three times, closed his eyes, leaned back and sighed, "Ahhh, good!" Basking in a lazy curl of smoke, he mused: "At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I want to be surprised by what comes out. I want to enjoy it more than the audience. That way the music...
...Great American Desert is very much like the proverbial little girl who had a curl right in the middle of her forehead: when it is good, it is very good, and when it's bad, it certainly is horrid. Like the little girl, it is moody, often funny, sometimes serious, frequently and petulantly cute, and then again just plain naughty. Within a scant hour, it manages to touch on the following subjects: the American Ideal, larceny, age, prostitution, sypnilis, dope addiction, juvenile delinquency, homosexuality, et al. That kind of range would be difficult in any play--in The Great American...
...transit strike, but because bicycles are forbidden at all times to youngsters under 14, motorbikes to all under 16. Also no-go in most of the snowbound capital are sleds and skis, because they "disturb public order." Presumably young Muscovites will now have plenty of time to curl up with, say, a good biography of Lenin...
...women prefer, for simple economic reasons, to go to the salon. To be sure, an appointment at Mr. Kenneth's may find Mr. Kenneth himself a continent away, ministering to clients who have requested his personal services. But each of the 22 assistants he employs can cut and curl as well as the next. With any luck, a girl will get a glimpse of the real thing, even perhaps be graced by a word or two, delivered over her head, but relating to it: "Not bad," he will say to the Mr. Ralph or Mr. Daniel or Miss Farr...
...Ohio (1964), the court spelled out what it meant by "community" standards. Because the Constitution is involved, the community is the whole country; the standard must be "national"-as defined by the Supreme Court. As a result, the nine learned Justices (average age: 63) are apparently doomed to curl up with every allegedly dirty book in the country and subjectively decide on its merits for themselves...