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...Southern California turning out millions of Mod pants a day. Just like cars, or skateboards. Teeny-boppers Inc. But are those herringbones that come from Brooks and J. Press and the A. shop, so different from one another? And those button-down shirts. All right, so one has a flap on the pocket and the other doesn't have a pocket...
Color Test. The VA team went to work last Dec. 7. A sweeping cut through the scalp from behind the left ear to the crown, and then another to the forehead, exposed the skull. Next the surgeons sawed through the bone and lifted a big flap to expose the brain. Then, wielding an electric cautery, they spent one hour and 50 minutes cutting away the diseased hemisphere-from the neocortex, the control center for man's most civilized mental processes, down to the ancient part of the brain, where reflexive and instinctual functions are mediated. The surgeons put nothing...
Hovering over the open-air podium with his arms outstretched, the white-bearded, white-jacketed conductor looked like a snowy egret about to flap off into the fading sunset. Instead, he flew into Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, his baton carving the air, his left hand kneading a softly glowing tone from the strings. In Copland's Quiet City, he moved with the sure, deft strokes of a tailor stitching a hem, weaving the complex patterns into a taut whole. The interpretations, typically, were masterpieces of lucidity and logic, and at concert's end the audience at Stanford...
...Lesson is a real loser. Admittedly the repertory form limits expanse as well as expense, but a charcoal-black flap can make a pretty ugly stage. Still, everything in its place. The Lesson is a competent, funny production -- everything, in short, that its companion one-acter...
...bombastic acting style of a rival theatre troupe from which Shakespeare had seceded. Watson's gestures often clarify the bawdy puns; and, after striding a barrel as though it were a horse, he engages in a duel so vigorously that he discovers at the end that his groin flap has fallen down...