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...painting a picture, he approaches the canvas as if it were a door to be broken into to reveal the hidden life beyond. Each line, dot or patch of color -for example, in Lent, the orange splash at the right-gives the artist a sensation and suggests the next step he must take...
Incapable of Ugliness. The Met's revival of Turandot, its first in 31 years, made up for much in the way of dull productions earlier in the season. Turandot (last syllable pronounced dot) remains the one Puccini work that appeals almost as much to the mind as to the heart. Writing for three years, under the shadow of death,* the composer was determined to move away from what he had come to regard as his earlier "slight" music. "Create for me something that will make the world weep," he instructed his librettists. In their adaptation of Carlo Gozzi...
Calcutta (Lawrence Welk and Orchestra; Dot). That old peddler of "Champagne Music"-better known in the trade as "sweet and moanin'," "holy chorus" or "sweet corn"-fields his first big hit single. With no lyrics or melody of any distinction, Welk's harpsichord-accordion arrangement has a slogging beat that apparently sets the jukebox crowd vibrating. The jocks have even taken to calling Bandsman Welk "Larry...
...Much set singers off in a frenzy of denial, confession and recrimination: I Don't Talk Too Much, I Talk Too Much, Who Talks Too Much? The craze has even provided an answer to what happened to the girl who lost the Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini. Her name, according to 14-year-old Songstress Jeri Lynne Eraser, was Begonia, and out there in the water Poor Begonia Caught Pneumonia...
...pleases him most. In one working day last week, Marcus came up with the gift for the "man who has everything, including a hangover," and sold a portable oxygen tank. Another customer who wanted "something new" got a watch specially made without numbers (it had only a single black dot). And then, of course, "the wife of the Vice President-elect came by and selected her inaugural gown along with a new suit...