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...current program confirm the breadth of his skill. Le Sucre du Printemps (The Rehearsal) (1980) pits a Chicago-style gangster and his moll against gray-clad ciphers in a workers' state, concluding in a massacre. Private Domain (1969) exposes a beach full of muscle builders, sexual athletes and Esther Williams-style chorus lines. Orbs (1966) harks back to the wedding scene in Martha Graham's landmark Appalachian Spring. Here, however, the screwball marriage takes place in "Terrestrial Autumn," where a drunk polkas with a rubber turkey...
...spread . . . that a dybbuk had settled in Tzeitel's ear, and that it chanted the Torah, sermonized, and crowed like a rooster." The narrator of The Cafeteria meets a woman who claims to have seen Adolf Hitler on upper Broadway. Her confidant is ultimately inclined to believe her: "Esther didn't sound insane. She had seen a piece of reality that the heavenly censorship prohibits as a rule. She had caught a glimpse behind the curtain of phenomena...
...Esther Halperin, 77, who wears the kind of art deco glasses that curl at the sides, spent her honeymoon in Atlantic City in 1925, at a kosher hotel on Virginia Avenue. She had two older sisters, and her parents refused to let her marry before they did, so she was forced to elope. "We only had 2½ days," she recalls. "We were married on a Tuesday, and I had to be back Friday night to light the candles. My in-laws were very religious." Her husband, who became a manufacturer of burlap bags, died two years ago. "He loved...
...porch dislike about the new Atlantic City. Lorna Shuster, for example, is annoyed by the big increase in costs. "We were told our taxes would go down," she says. "Instead everything has gone up about four times. They lied to us." "The old people have been thrown out," adds Esther Halperin. "And they expected to die here...
...music of Chinese gongs, while others moaned in the transports of "deep muscle therapy." Even professional critics engaged in feisty controversies at the A.D.F. commissary, the Barre. And when attention turned to the six evenings of new dance performances, the arguments intensified. Was it dance or an Esther Williams routine...