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LITTLE MURDERS. This revival of Cartoonist Jules Feiffer's first full-length play still suffers from being a series of animated cartoons spliced together rather than an organic drama. What Feiffer does achieve, with the aid of Alan Arkin's masterly direction and a remarkably resourceful cast, is social observation that is razor sharp...
...vast variety of impressionists and post-impressionists-a variety so rich that it provides offbeat works of artists whose characteristic style has become almost too familiar. Sāo Paulo has, for instance, several Renoir nudes in his well-known manner. But the eye-opener is the full-length Bather with Griffon, painted in 1870 when Renoir was still seeing through the eyes of his mentor Courbet. It depicts Renoir's first mistress, Lise Tréhot. No later Renoir nude was more lushly sensuous...
...cartoon is an act of aggression camouflaged by humor. Feiffer is a satirical sniper who drills lethal little holes in the feverish body politic. In security, hostility, urban hysteria are both his targets and his weapons, and all his cartoons are Little Murders, as he has titled his first full-length play...
Elfin and Chinese. The Mozart was assigned to Peter Ustinov. Directing a full-length opera for the first time, he tackled The Magic Flute with warnings ringing in his ears. "Some pointed out that it was the most difficult opera of all to stage," said Ustinov. Their point was well taken, since The Magic Flute is a stylistic hodgepodge: there are dazzling coloratura arias, sunny folk songs and slapstick scenes. It is a curious melange, and the fact that it is based on a solemn Masonic morality play only adds to the confusion...
...Hornig, George Murphy, and Chris Gurry scored the other three goals. Gurry's goal climaxed a spectacular full-length rush with one Harvard player in the penalty...