Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tuscania making fakes. Tomb-robbing was the local cottage industry." Hughes made his contribution to the local economy. Buying Etruscan pots from farmers and amateur dealers at top prices of from $15 to $20 each, he eventually accumulated some 40 pieces, at least half of them fake. "My eye was very naive," he confesses. During his later travels, he stored the collection with a friend in Florence where it was destroyed in the great flood of 1966. "Maybe if I hadn't bought them," says Hughes ruefully, "they'd still exist...
...hope to travel down memory lane with the score will find much of it a dusty detour. Only Alice Blue Gown, You Made Me Love You and the title song have survived 1919 with melodic vitality. Thanks be to Peter Gennaro's dance numbers for some lively eye openers at points in the story where one might be strongly tempted to doze off. They are executed with zest and finesse, and one number, The Riviera Rage, also possesses a saucy elegance...
...EYE IN THE LAST STORM by JAMES WILLWERTH 178 pages. Grossman...
...fact that the war is now over will have only a slight effect upon the reader's reaction to the book because Eye in the Last Storm is so personal. How you feel about the book finally depends on how you feel about the author, who resembles a G.I. he meets on the way to cover Laos: "An odd mixture of rebellion and conventional attitudes. And he is lonely. He tells stories one after another as we walk to the river, as though no one has listened for a long time...
...musical maintains a satisfactory pace because of Kidd's eye for stage movement and because Christopher Plummer does Rostand's lines so well. It would be far, far better to see Plummer in the original play, but as Cyrano's opponents discover, in swordfights or musicals, you take what you're stuck with...