Word: ferring
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...puts all three big horns in his mouth at once, and blows like a whale. What spouts forth sometimes sounds like a bagpipers' band skirling The Campbells Are Coming. But most often the sounds belong uniquely to their maker, Roland Kirk, who meshes a thrumming beat, a fer tile imagination and an impish humor to achieve an exciting union of the pa gan and the modern spirit - as if Pan were suddenly found piping merrily in a rush-hour subway...
...Michael Gough makes a wonderfully.sinister Lord d'Arcy. There is a splendidly splashy scene in which a man is stabbed in the eye. And there is a gorgeously juicy line, spoken by a ratcatcher to the horrified heroine (Heather Sears). "Oi cud let yew 'ave baoth rats fer tappence," he says sweetly, turning on the charm. "Mike a lavly pie, y'knaow...
...town's big stadium, pumping away together at 21 different tunes. In the enormous (3,500-seat) tent erected for the occasion, the bands played weekends-from early afternoon until early the next morning. Among those present: 40 emotional Italians of the Corpo Musicale del Dopolavoro Fer-roviario of Milan who nearly blasted the $40,000 tent to pieces with Cam Amati, a musical description of attacking Italian tanks in World War II; three bands of sardine fishermen and rice workers from Portugal, who traveled almost two weeks by bus in order to perform for two days at Kerkrade...
...week the disorders in the Asturias coal fields had pretty well run themselves out, but not before the regime was forced to offer 50% wage increases that were welcome to the miners, although less than they had asked. Elsewhere, the strike was still spreading. It was clear that the fer ment had made a deep impression on Franco and his top aides; when even Spain's leading Roman Catholic magazine came out in favor of the strikers, the gov ernment hinted that it might legalize non-political strikes, a major break in the 24-year prohibition on labor protests...
...Fall Down (M-G-M). Berry-berry Willart (Warren Beatty) takes a long, slow pull of bourbon. "Funny things happen t'me alla time," he says reflectively. "Dunno why. Dunno what I'm gonna do next. I just-live fer kicks!" And he lays back his ears and laughs like a jackass that can smell the old pea patch...