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...Boys from Syracuse. This can't be fluff because it unreels so welleven if it has been 24 years since Abbott, Rodgers and Hart opened it on Broadway, after purloining the mistaken-identity story line from William Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. Song and skinbut no sobs, no sorrows, no sighs...
...lyrical first stanza, in which Shade as a boy gazes at reflections in a window, is one of the best: I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff-and I Lived on, flew on, in the reflected...
...situation comparable to your kid brother's meeting Khrushchev at the Summit. Admit it. Your kid brother couldn't end the Cold War. Miss Fay, however, very nearly brings off her role with eclat. As it is, she has enough poise and charm to cover up an occasional fluff or to make you forget the juicy lines she lets slip by from lack of rehearsal. One might also excuse her tedious movements and lack of stage business for the same reasons, but the fault lies not in Pat Fay but in director Richard Greenbaum...
...spoiled brats that we are, we have come to expect more than a big ball of fluff when we see a show. Lute, Flute is a revue, of course, and it would be unfair to expect it to be fraught with meaning for our time. But as authors, Mr. Morey and Mr. Paul have consistently gone for the easy laugh. Somebody says "Barry Goldwater," and the audience breaks up, the way people used to at the mention of Brooklyn; and everybody feels great because he's in on the joke. But the situation is rarely exploited; brilliant ideas for scenes...
...world but willing to search it out with fresh ideas and experiments. Out of the ferment may come a rededication to solid news values. It is not by chance but design that the bulkiest Sunday newspaper of them all, the New York Times, is by no means devoted to fluff; the Times Sunday news sections generally outweigh the total contents of many of its competitors. "The trend on Sunday as well as daily," says Lester Markel, 67, Times Sunday editor for 38 years, "must be toward what I would call emphasis on the news rather than entertainment. Newspapers...