Word: delights
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...genuine surprise in the nostalgia nonsense is not the durability of the vehicles or the performers, but the sense of freshness emerging from all this wallowing in memory. That, precisely, is the delight of Follies. Superficially, its cast may appear to be just another line-up of Late Show dropouts; and its theme could have been one more excuse to laugh or cry at the kind of song and dance that dazzled a less sophisticated generation. But in its staging, and above all in its music and lyrics, Follies is astonishingly futuristic?more modern, really, than that calculated rock-beat...
...Minturn, who makes his face a sour, frowning mask that states his personality. Pinchwife is as overly protective of his wife's honor as Sparkish is negligent of Alithea's. Keeping his country wife under lock and key. Pinchwife confidently declares, "I understand the town." The audience takes enormous delight when the young, inexperienced Margery defeats the old coot, who thinks himself so wise...
While these sour truths seep in, the old Follies girls (De Carlo, Fifi d'Orsay, Mary McCarty) do their thing. Ethel Shutta siphons pure delight out of a number called Broadway Baby and reminds us, as do the others, of how much more verve, authority and presence the older stage professionals possessed than do many of their flaccid present-day counterparts. A campy show might have mocked the old stars, but Follies shows an un-American respect for age by honoring their skill, valiance and tenacity...
Vagueness and insubstantiality are the qualities at hand when Antonio Parr wakes up in the morning. Parr is a man in his 30s who has a small private income and has worked without delight as a teacher, a failed novelist and a junk sculptor. "I resorted as little as possible to welding," explains the hero of Frederick Buechner's ruefully funny new novel, "but used balance wherever I could or the natural capacity of one odd shape to fit somehow into or on top of or through another-entirely autobiographical, in other words-the idea being to leave...
...staff was treated to clear evidence of his delight with the House defeat of funds for the big plane: from inside his suite in the New Senate Office Building could be heard the voice of the usually taciturn Proxmire singing Bill from the old musical Show Boat. His office reflects his personal style-sparsely furnished, its green walls completely devoid of pictures or decorations. The only homey touch is the hot plate used to make his breakfast at the office after his 4.8-mile run-not a jog-to the office and 200 pushups. At 55, Proxmire is nearly...