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Beached Whale. Between the Red offensive and North Korea's seizure of the U.S.S. Pueblo, the mighty U.S. suddenly seemed as impotent as a beached whale. Even those nations that normally delight in American embarrassment refrained from crowing openly...
...ANNIHILATION," announces the latest Lampoon, "is the intriguing game of intercontinental devastation designed to delight both adults and children." Any adult or child who manages to survive the 36-page assault is more likely to be left devastated than delighted. The Lampoon attempts to obliterate war with more bombs than are necessary, and is thereby guilty of the kind of overkill it hopes to lampoon. The Overkill Number is overworked, overwritten, overwrought...
Twelfth Night is becoming the busiest musical off Broadway. It opened (and closed) this month in the form of a sad travesty called Love and Let Love. Last week it was back as a romping delight called Your Own Thing, which does for the kids of the '60s, with their sexual hang-ups and his-and-her looks, something of what West Side Story-alias Romeo and Juliet-did for the rumbling teen-age groups of the '50s. In Your Own Thing, Shakespeare has had the services of a brilliant collaborator from Portland, Ore. Writer-Director Donald Driver...
...anything but make that one body," was a dry and witty piece done to the music of Ornette Coleman. Eight dancers jittered towards and away from each other, popped up and down, parodied square dance movements, or fulsomely collapsed on one another with deadpan faces, all to the delight of the audience. The success of the dance lav in its careful attention to tempo changes. Doubling, deliberately opposing or ignoring the beat of the music in the most impish way, the dancers looked as if they were motivated by some inner whimsy propelling the eight of them into a very...
...white sneakers. As Orr explained: "Making the sculpture is just as important-in fact, the same thing-as the art work itself." Visitors could join in the esthetic experience by meandering between the smoking pylons of art. "What makes it so weird," said one visitor with a shiver of delight, "is that you can't see your feet through the vapor." "What makes it so wild," mused another, "is that a combination of art and ice ineluctably becomes arce...