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...Monday before Lent. Parading or gawking, nearly everyone was in costume, and sidewalks were thronged with people dressed up as pirates, ducks and even gasoline pumps. One woman wore a full-length black body stocking-with two holes snipped out to expose her nipples. Several frowning, grumpy men sported greasepaint mustaches and sheets over their heads: die Araber seemed to symbolize the Rhinelanders' anxiety about the energy shortage's impact on the economic future of their country...
Anyone who has seen The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of The Crowd--the "other" Anthony Newley musical--will quickly recognize Newley's rather facile method of symbolism, and the familiar, characteristic nature of his melodies. Like Cocky, the central character of Greasepaint, Littlechap represents the little-guy/clown figure, valiantly struggling against innumerable forces and the temptations of the world. Because this world is often overpowering, he is occasionally forced to stop it, in order to escape temporarily any nightmare or turmoil he brings down on himself. We initially see him attempting--and failing--to entertain an imagined...
...rough, tough, he-man theater-to national audiences, even those that think that Manhattan is an island halfway between Sodom and Gomorrah. Beyond that, there is of course TV, and if Papp has his way, the ether will soon be saturated with drama in the Papp manner. A greasepaint Napoleon, he encompasses the theatrical world. As he opens New York City's 16th annual Shakespeare Festival in Central Park this week with a production of Hamlet starring Stacy Keach, congratulations-even self-congratulations-are indeed in order...
Clearly a medium of the Nixonian message has been applied to Madison Avenue. Improved make-up and stylized lighting have erased his five o'clock shadow and Nixon-speak--Vietnamization, Phase II, incursion, game plan--and alliterative Agnewese ring in the inner ear. But no amount of pancake and greasepaint and well-placed Fresnels could gloss Nixon's profound physical gracelessness. There is a fatal slowness about the man that pervades his surprise announcements on national television with the forced enthusiasm and unsuccessful electricity of Ed Sullivan bringing on Baldy Laird and his Vietnamese Dancing Bear as the headliner...
...college degree, he has been a soldier ever since. And no ordinary soldier. The most decorated enlisted man of the Korean War, he toured the U.S. and Allied capitals as the Army's symbol of the Perfect Fighting Man. A picture of Herbert -face smudged with camouflage greasepaint, rifle gripped menacingly-illustrated a manual for elite Ranger trainees. His way through the Army was the fighter's way-training in mountaineering, as a parachutist, a Green Beret. With the rows of ribbons, the close-cropped haircut, the polished gleam of his uniform's brass...