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Every musical aims for at least one showstopper. Follies can count on two. The first is Who's That Woman? Seven of the aging Follies girls, led by that infallible comedienne Mary Mc-Carty, re-enact an old routine, ostensibly to mirrors. From the indistinct background, their youthful selves emerge ?backs to the audience, as if a reflection: new vamps for old. The symmetry of the ballet?choreographed by Follies Co-Director Michael Bennett?is never violated for a quarter-note. When an old girl turns, her "reflection" makes the selfsame move in reverse, a feat whose parallel...
...around the council chamber singing "We Shall Overcome." The Council president asked them to desist. When they refused, he had them arrested for disturbing the meeting. The clergymen argued in court that their behavior was an act of conscience in the face of the refusal of the Council to enact a civil rights ordinance. Their demonstration, they contended, was a statement of moral feeling protected by the First Amendment right to petition for redress of grievances. The Court rejected their plea. Recognizing that what constitutes a disturbance is contingent upon circumstances, the Court held that interruption of the orderly process...
President Nixon last week appointed Dean Dunlop to head a committee which will enact a "self-regulating" wage-price control system in the construction industry...
...controversial legislation through Parliament, foiled by the supreme court when she sought to abolish the maharajahs' privy purses, she decided to dissolve Parliament and try to win a greater majority. If she winds up with a two-thirds majority, she will be able not only to enact her program but also to amend the constitution...
...play with toys and in movement to music. Pantomime, substituting the stimulation of an idea for music or a toy, is the first mode in which a student attempts to converse with another. After choral pantomime Moffett proposes organizing students in small groups, six or less in each, to enact short scenes from stories for their own group and eventually for the whole class. Verbal dramatic activity naturally evolves as students add words to their pantomime. Finally students improvise stories rather than enact those they already know...