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Whether this story line could have been saved is questionable. Padding it out with Marlboro-country scenery is no great help. The horses graze and people gaze-at the sky, at each other, at nothing...
...Commencement day, after the handshaking and congratulations, that same chin will have fallen in and begun to take on the connotations of another politician, Richard Nixon-sobering, bedraggled, absorbed in its five o'clock shadow. The sunken eyes will recede a little deeper, but the straight-on gaze that says "Tell me your story" will remain as will the glittering beam of light that comes from some far off edge of the room and has lodged itself in this man's eyes...
...School. But those who remained got along well with their black classmates; there was not a single racial incident during the entire school year. Last week, graduation exercises brought a year of tranquillity to a fitting close. Garbed in caps and gowns, white and blacks mingled freely under the gaze of proud parents...
...over whether mannequins are sexually promiscuous (some are, some aren't). Author Luigi Barzini told of the time that Mussolini, accompanied by a phalanx of officials and journalists, was motoring through the countryside. Suddenly the caravan halted and Il Duce got out and walked to a wall, apparently to gaze at the scene. Everybody else respectfully went over to share the leader's bucolic vision, only to discover that Mussolini was simply relieving himself. Too late to retreat, the entourage followed protocol...
True enough. But in fact there is no going back; to gaze at the rearview mirror guarantees a crash. The best of Follies indicates that the art of the theater, like all art, must renew itself by destroying tradition or by using it in fresh ways. Follies amply demonstrates that the musical?America's single greatest contribution to the history of drama?need not become the exclusive province of the antique dealer or the rock group. In style and substance it can be as flexible as a film, as immediate as a street scene. Lyrics need not be laundry lists...