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...country, but is especially strong in New England, where Chatham, Mass., draws audiences from Boston and beyond. Winsted, Conn., Rotarians raised $6,000 to build a new bandstand; Lions in Winchester, Mass., pledged their 50-member band a new shell. Boston's new Prudential Center plaza has gingham-covered tables, straw boaters on the light globes and its own Gazebo Band...
...comically mugged. The hero (Dean Martin) is the bunkhouse bum: tall in the saddle, low in the brow, pronounces cow in three syllables, thinks "ideals" is what a man says when he picks up a deck of cards. The heroine (Rosemary Forsyth) is Pioneer Womanhood: wears what looks like gingham by Givenchy, stands behind eyelashes a prairie owl could roost on, pronounces cow in four syllables, passes for a lady in a country where census takers count feet and divide by four...
AARON COPLAND: THE TENDER LAND (Columbia). An abridgment of Copland's only major opera, set on a Midwest farm in the '30s. Though the characters sing of gingham and the smell of stew, the music is not homespun, being tenderly lyrical. A small-scale work suitable for opera workshops, it was recorded by soloists from the New York City Opera, with the Choral Art Society and the New York Philharmonic, Copland conducting...
...uniform as soon as he entered the suite; and, just as easily, he has shed the 26th Street Beach obscenities and Californiaisms like "bitchin'" from his speech. During our three-hour talk, he looked like an expensively-tailored cowboy. The beige suede boots were new, as were the red gingham shirt, the black suede vest, and the levi-cut pants of loden wool flannel. He pulled self-consciously at his boots and told us that "we've got the bread and we live that...
Better in Gingham. But in India, even the Western bride's protective coloration was coming under fire. In the Times of India, Columnist Amita Malik recently launched a cutting campaign against foreigners in saris. "If there is anything uglier than an Indian matron in bulging jeans," she snapped, "it is a white woman, tall, angular and with straw-colored hair, wearing a Dacca sari Foreign wives fondly imagine that they look beautiful in saris, when they would look miles better in gingham...