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Cabaret. with Liza Minelli, Joel Grey, Michael York. Another movie about German decadence, but this one plays cleaner than most. Which isn't saying much. Its Germans are on the whole a piggish disreputable bunch. There is your bisexual decaying aristocrat, your mother loving young men, the soldiers who seem to like each other better than the women. Joel Grey is terrific, and Minelli's "Money, Money" would make just about anything worthwhile. Cinema Kenmore Square...
...elsewhere the streets are tightly packed and the sidewalks obstructed with signs and display cases. Bright commerce battles an overall mood of grey and white, the theme derived from the cool and erratically rainy sky overhead, taken up by the architecture--white panelled, glassed to reflect that sky, blocky as the crossword puzzles everyone works automatically--and completed in the hair, faces, gait, and sternness of the abundant elderly...
Cabaret. with Liza Minelli, Joel Grey, Michael York. Another movie about German decadence, but this one plays cleaner than most. Which isn't saying much. Its Germans are on the whole a piggish disreputable bunch. There is your bisexual decaying aristocrat, your mother loving young men, the soldiers who seem to like each other better than the women. Joel Grey is terrific, and Minelli's "Money, Money" would make just about anything worthwhile. Cinema Kenmore Square...
Chausson: Poem of Love and the Sea; Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne (Soprano Victoria de los Angeles; Lamoureux Concerts Orchestra, Jean-Pierre Jacquillat conductor; Angel, $5.98). A vocal record to cherish, with De los Angeles, now 49, as ear-ravishing as ever. By the standard of the classic Madeline Grey Auvergne recording (1930), this version is a shade operatic, but in its own opulent way nonetheless irresistible. The Chausson, delicately contrasting the ephemera of love with the eternity of the sea, is a pre-Impressionistic gem, hauntingly burnished by De los Angeles, rapturously accompanied by Conductor Jacquillat...
...genre lies in the fact that, when pressure has built up for a long time and an outlet is at last afforded, there is likely to be an explosion. Under the intolerant Puritan regime of Oliver Cromwell, the theatres were kept closed for nearly two decades--"The grey Puritan is a sick man, soul and body sick," wrote D.H. Lawrence. With the accession in 1660 of Charles II, who liked the theatre, the lid blew off, and licentiousness swept high society. The Restoration aristocrats would have agreed with Havelock Ellis that sex is "the central problem of life"; for them...