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...festival features 900 "natural" performers-netmakers, square dancers, fiddlers, weavers, cooks, cowboys and others-discovered across the nation by 50 Smithsonian field researchers, and others sought out abroad to demonstrate the old ways that have been transplanted to the New World. The researchers, scouting the country for local talent, came up with Fiddler Ed Johnson and Guitarist Joe Trottier, North Dakota Indians who play Scotch-Irish jigs. They found Charles Sayles playing his harmonica on a street corner in Greenwich Village and discovered Dolores Pequefio, a grandmother from San Diego, who sings 500-year-old Portuguese ballads...
...evidently, the price one pays for an Allen comedy. It is worth the fee. For unlike his closest cinematic competitor, Mel Brooks, Allen aims his custard pies up, not down. If his humor is merciless, it is not unkind; Boris' angry monologues with God are closer to Fiddler on the Roof than to comic on the make. The same affection courses through his parodies of Fellini and Bergman and of Pierre at Borodino. In mocking classics, in touching on the topics of religion and mortality, Allen has drawn laughter where there was silence and mustaches where there were faces...
...illusion is based on the ability of those institutions to throw their chips in with the non-academic rulers of society. The merger may be a long-lasting one, but it will not be a happy one for the nineteenth-century vision promulgated by Lipset. At one point, the fiddler will change his tune, and the university will find itself in the position of having to dance. That will happen, one way or another. But more important, the university by its own means has destroyed the myth of scholarship for its own sake. It cannot be preserved against those...
...shortened his career. If you have never seen any Yiddish theater and you want to this is probably the only example you're likely to find in Cambridge this weekend (this year? this decade?) and I plan to catch if it probably bears less resemblance to Norman Jewison's. Fiddler on the Roof than does Jesus Christ Superstar (also by Jewison, or Christianson as they called him on the Fiddler set) which has a kicked-out-jams performance by Josh Mostel, son of the Emperor Zero...
Gilligan's second of the night came at 14:11 of the third period to give the Bruins a 4-3 bulge, but Kuzyk knotted the count and forced overtime just 32 seconds later when he converted from immediately in front of McCabe on Mike Fiddler's pass from the backboards...