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Bailyn convinced the Faculty Council last month to propose this format, rather than the eight area division, to the Faculty...
...flowed from it, a palace of exegesis was raised-an academy so pervasive hi its effect during the '60s that hundreds of younger artists from New York to Sydney could see no way past it. The polished assurance of Noland's style, its clear-cut shifts of format and structure succeeding one another like the terms of a syllogism, combined with the haughty, messianic tone of its supporting criticism to present a most intimidating façade. Who, under that shadow, could call a stripe a stripe...
Unfortunately for Raggedy Ann & Andy, nothing else can match the magic of these metamorphoses. Except for its realistic frame, the film is a full-length animated feature. But its format betrays the fact that it started out to be something else: a musical intended as a TV special. When the producers switched to animated film, they made the dubious decision to use the conventions of Broadway staging. Hence solo turns and production numbers are dutifully reproduced cartoon-style. The songs by Joe Raposo, composer of TV's Sesame Street, are deft, pleasant and numerous (16 in all). Songs...
...what about all those guys that spring practice could help, the ballplayers that could improve with some personal coaching, that deserve a closer look? Coach Joe Restic would like to see the Ivy League adopt a limited spring format where upcoming sophomores and non-lettermen could voluntarily don the pads to show their stuff, to learn techniques not yet mastered, to benefit from individualized attention, to get a better shake. This is what spring practice once was and this is what spring practice should again...
...congressman and the priest are cut from the same cloth, a take-off on Watergate that uses a religious framework should have great potential. But Michael Lindsay-Hogg's film Nasty Habits relies too much on an ornamental frame--the format of transplanting the Watergate scenario to a Philadelphia convent--and leaves only a blank canvas for content...