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...attempt to revive the old revue format is noble, but the material for the Wild Stunt Show is simply atrocious. The jokes are so trite, so moldy and artless that we wonder whether they are purposely so in order to heighten the nostalgic values. They either fall into the category of the travelling salesman and farmer's daughter, or into the category of stupid. All are repetitious. There are some notable gimmicks, but to reveal them here would be to deprive them of any possible humor they might have had, because they are just that, substanceless gimmicks...
WHILE THE ELECTRONIC complexities of Dark Side are present in their new album, Pink Floyd has employed a different format from their previous efforts. For instance, instead of being a collection of songs calling to mind a particular impression, Wish You Were Here revolves around a central piece called "Shine on You Crazy Diamond". This twenty-minute ode to the group's former leader, Syd Barrett, which opens the first side of the album, is a biographical piece tracing Barrett's experience as a member of the group and since his departure...
...Harvard harriers will face traditional rival Northeastern on Wednesday in a completely untraditional meet format. Because of the new NCAA rules, Harvard [the home squad] will only be allowed to run 11 varsity harriers while Northeastern can only let 9 runners compete. Harvard coach Bill McCurdy usually lets dozens of runners race in meets to give experience to a lot of people...
...play attempted to string together several Hemingway short stories to dramatize the life of the Nobel prize winning author. Despite the help of Rod Steiger in the lead role, the play did not succeed and Hunter came away from the performance feeling the fault was in the "bio play" format of the work. Hunter explains. "Such plays follow the chronology line of a person's life and present the essence of the main character as his of her reaction to a succession of events." For Hunter this format was limiting...
This kind of cool, specific advice runs throughout Black Child Care (Simon & Schuster; $9.95). Its authors are Dr. Alvin Poussaint, 41, associate dean of students at Harvard Medical School, and Dr. James Comer, 40, professor at Yale University Child Study Center. Their book, written in question-and-answer format, is a stage-by-stage study of the black child's development from infancy through adolescence...