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Furthermore, some of the gossips regard Librarian-Piano Teacher Marian Paroo (Barbara Cook) as something of a hussy because she approves of such racy authors as "Chaucer, Rabelais and Balzac." In this setting of cornfield provincialism, the Music Man decides to stir up a little trouble to distract attention from his own shenanigans. His horrifying revelation to the townspeople: a pool table has been installed in the billiard parlor...
...stagecraft to such an extent that it seriously detracts from the play. Indeed, Brecht's ideas about "antitheatricality" must be used dramatically, not as an excuse not to sweep the stage. The creamy decor of the bare Agassiz stage with a vista to the light board tends to distract the eye and the attention, rather than to accent the action. The idea of using masque-like make-up is bright and fresh, but the make-up should be carefully and artfully applied to all the characters. The costumes are merely sloppy: blue-jeans and bare feet like a session...
...conference with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to weld NATO into a new unity, not just of arms and armies, but of all Western moral and material resources. One reservation in Washington's planning: the fear that too much emphasis on a Washington-London axis might distract the sessions from their urgent, NATO-wide purpose...
...There once was a woman with unsightly feet. People whispered about her as she passed: "Look at that gal with those big, ugly feet." To distract attention from her unfortunate condition, the woman dyed her hair an eye-catching green. Thenceforth, she was gay, carefree. Everybody noticed her green hair. They whispered about her, as she passed: "Look at that gal with the green hair. And get a load of those feet...
...treachery. Such a reminder may be necessary when the Russian delegation starts filling the air with denunciations of Western activity in Algeria, Oman and Syria. In fact, the British Foreign Office last week described the flurry of Russian notes about the Middle East as simply an attempt "to distract attention" from the forthcoming meeting of the U.N. Assembly to consider the report on Hungary. The world would be a much simpler place if that was all there...