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...S.R.O. first night did she emerge from the wings to a standing ovation-a moment of high emotion. The last time she had performed was in 1969, and her later decision to stop dancing had seemed to mark the end of her fruitful career and cast her into deep gloom. "It was a difficult time," she now says. "But then I began to feel a sense of urgency that my work should go on even if I was not able to dance myself."The cheering audience plainly agreed...
...aspects of a whole visual culture that was not so accessible to earlier masters of photography like Nadar and Oscar Rejlander. In his 20s, Steichen's prints frankly imitated the "look" of paintings; a famous image of J.P. Morgan, glaring over his bottle nose out of the gloom, comes as near to Titian as photography can, and the gum-print and pigment-print portraits that Steichen made of himself and his friends, reworking the image with eraser and fingers, seem like deliberate homages to Whistler. The melting halftones, the silvery highlights and atmospheric blurs (he would spit...
Abubble. For 24 hours there was gloom enough to sink a Bergman tragedy, let alone a comedy. Prince talked with Actress Tammy Grimes about taking over the Johns part- a switch that would have meant a one-week delay of the opening, at a cost of $50,000. "This business is all about taking chances," Prince croaked hoarsely, "but you have to be careful of the odds." But by midweek, Johns was once again abubble. Was Prince headed for a hit, all the more gratifying because of the obstacles? Or were the New York previews portents of disaster? That remained...
...Crimson did, however, have some bright spots in the gloom of the defeat. Freshman Tom Wolf, the Harvard varsity record-holder in the 200-yd. backstroke, won the 100-yd. backstroke in 54.5 seconds to equal the Harvard freshman record...
...characters are only scan deep. Moreover, the savor seems to have gone out of his triumphs. Another Simon smash is no longer news; it would take a failure to astonish anyone, and Simon seems incapable of one. All of which drove Simon into a deep depression last year, a gloom from which he is only beginning to emerge. He is, in brief, a character in a Neil Simon play. In preparing an Essay on Simon and American humor, Kanfer found that the notes from his interview with the playwright mystically rearranged themselves into dramatic form. 2 a.m. on Third Avenue...