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...effective in eliciting a creditable ensemble performance on this side of the Atlantic. The result is a highly entertaining show, even if it betrays some unevenness and sags a little toward the end (the text itself sags here and there, too). It would be unfair to demand the sustained glitter that a top British troupe could bring to the task, and one can be grateful for a company that comes as close as this...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'The Country Wife' in Bright, Funny Revival | 7/6/1973 | See Source »

This quiet light wouldn't expose everything, only scattered pieces of the world, and glitter for a moment. It made the world seem broken, and smaller; as if dispresed from a thunderstorm, and shattered and bedraggled...

Author: By Alta Starr, | Title: A Southern Sister/Inside This Closed Northern Shit | 3/27/1973 | See Source »

...they ever been repainted? To the bafflement of an old man poring over a thick ledger at a desk where mine once was, I vainly searched the walls for a familiar mark or crack. Outside, the lights along the Whangpoo River below were just coming on, but the neon glitter of old Shanghai is gone forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: A Reporter Revisits Shanghai | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

...while Bowie and the Martian Spiders blasted their songs with such supersonic zeal that even the squeals from the audience were drowned out. One of Bowie's fans, an 18-year-old girl, looking a little like a Martian herself with green, orange and purple feather boas, red glitter around her eyes and black lipstick, spoke for the squealers: "I wish David Bowie were from Mars. It would be so sexy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 26, 1973 | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

...campus to support change in the educational system. Probably the question is too near at hand to generate much excitement: students usually prefer to get involved in such remote questions as the role of the University in Angola. Day-to-day concerns can hardly present themselves with the same glitter as supposed bloody repression far away, so they tend to be ignored even though they are much closer to the real welfare of students...

Author: By James W. Muller, | Title: Some Thoughts on Educational Reform | 12/5/1972 | See Source »

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