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...come here because I like to watch ratty-eyed kids in ratty sweaters running at a rat-like gait from gloomy hovels populated, in too many cases, by crowded families and owned in an equal number of cases by the opulent residents of Brookline and Newton and other suburban greenbelts South and West...
...fact, the best of Mime I is anything but funny. Weisman's adaptation of Marceau's skit "The Cage" is a lovingly prepared allegory on the prisoner of modern society, trapped by the invisible shield of Gardol. Weisman's flappy figure strolls out in a relaxed gait and walks right into a contracting glass cage. He escapes, by breaking the wall, but ignorantly stumbles back into the trap, and to destruction...
...Barnabas' Hospital in The Bronx, pioneer Dr. Cooper is working on removing tumors from inside the brain by freezing them first. Already he has shown that cryosurgery will bring dramatic relief in some cases of muscular dystonia, restoring hopelessly deformed children to near-normal posture and gait...
Premiered by Diaghilev in 1923 in Paris' Théâtre de la Gaité Lyrique, Les Noces has not been performed in the U.S. since 1936 because of the difficulties of mounting it. But the Robbins production was a symptom of the revived vigor of the American Ballet Theatre, which has had its ups and downs since it first burst on the U.S. stage with such freshly contemporary ballets as Robbins' own 1944 Fancy Free. Its current season at Lincoln Center has been a near-sellout success. Once again the company is what it was intended...
...team's tallest starter was Carl Kendrick, a 6-4 forward who runs with a curious gait of someone pedaling a high-wheeled bicycle. Kendrick is, without question, a good forward, but against the likes of Boston College's 6-8 Jim Kissane, a 6-4 player can get few points and fewer rebounds...