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...Flora, the Red Menace. The idea of spinning a musical comedy around a Manhattan Communist Party cell in the Depression '30s bears out Marx's warning that history repeats itself as farce. The era resists the prevailing modes of musical comedy: satire and nostalgia. The '30s are not close enough for slashing satirical gibes, and not distant enough to be bathed in a glowing forgetfulness of things past. Half the audience is too young to care, and the other half is too old to wish to be reminded...
Though filled with plot-happy cartoon Commies, Flora is strangely plotless. A stammeringly angry young Red (Bob Dishy) sweet-and-sour-talks a guileless fashion illustrator (Liza Minnelli) into carrying a card. When she surprises him with a half-undressed, wholly unabashed, free-love enterpriser (Cathryn Damon) and discovers that the chip on his shoulder is his head, she rips up both card...
...kind of erotic robber bar On, Baal squeezes the juices of life, love and lust out of other men's wives, friends' mistresses and such virgins as the one played by Flora Elkins- and then casts them aside with savage contempt. He is always raving drunk and ravenously sex-hungry, at one point taking two sisters to bed at the same time. Between these bouts of insane carnality, he cheats, lies, steals, and spouts some embarrassingly inflated rhetoric at the sun, trees, sea and sky. The only being he seems to care for is a homosexual composer...
...Glad to Be Alive." Dr. Alphonse Flora, associated with Ciba Pharmaceutical Co., suggested to Dr. Robie that there might be a way of making the 5-HTP act faster and more effectively by giving yet a third drug. In his East Orange, N.J., practice Dr. Robie tried the three-way method on severely depressed patients, some of whom he had been treating for months or years, keeping them only just short of suicide. The first two or three patients brightened up so much before they got out of his office, that for the first time in years they were glad...
John Bakkensen and Bill Pfeiffer should take one-two in the discus, and Crimson teammate John Micketts will battle Wall-in and Flora for third position. The Crimson edge in the pole vault is not so wide. Dave Bell and George Winters, the indoor Greater Boston champion, have both cleared 13 ft--6 in. higher than B.U.'s Jeff Blatt and Northeastern's Ed Speath...