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...Gnomes, for all its early promise and despite the nearly universal "Gee, aren't they cute" feeling it engenders in the hearts of bookstore browsers, begins to grow dull. The humorous and whimsical passages begin to get lost in the voluminous survey of gnomelife. Does anybody really care how gnomes make candles or what they fill their little stomachs with at breakfast? Alas, like the book's subjects, attention span is short, and the reader begins to grow weary of Gnomes...
Last month, the press agents for Deathtrap notified The Crimson that Robert Moore, the play's director, would be available for an interview. It seemed like a fair opportunity to ask all those gosh-gee what's-it-like-to-be-a-real-director questions, and Moore, who directed the play The Boys in the Band and the film Murder By Death, has worked as steadily as anyone in theatre, movies, and television in the last few years...
...womanhood. Pomme has traded in both her old name and her schoolgirl charms for embroidered clothes, an Iranian boyfriend, and a guitar: she sings songs about round and flat tummies. Suzanne wears a softly tailored suit and a "hey, I'm together now" smile. A hug, kiss and a "gee, you look great" later the two part again, this time promising to keep in touch with long letters...
...dance, the sheer pain of the effort to appear effortless. Writer Laurents has a similar capacity for catching the pretenses and bitchiness of life in a dance company. These touches lie at the heart of the picture's appeal, grounding it in a reality that offsets its gee-whizness...
...reportage. Harrison Salisbury, for instance, fresh from a month-long tour of China, has been able to write in the New York Times about the educational system, border strife and other subjects with greater depth than he could during a 1972 trip. He explains: "There was a lot of gee-whiz reporting then. It was like landing on the moon...