Word: hairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dancers begin standing in formation upstage. Walking forward as a line, they crouch nearer and nearer to the floor until lying belly-down. Pusing themselves backwards to standing, the group returns to its first formation. After several rounds slight irregularities in the pattern crop up: one dancer fixes her hair, another brushes something off her leg, yet another glances quickly at the ceiling. Several rounds later members of the collective blurt out word associations with the "post-modern" aesthetic: "symmetry...precision...logic...formalism." All the while the extraordinarily funny dismembering of the repititive pattern continues...
...realization brings the purge, consumation of the break. You cut off all your hair or change your wardrobe, try on new styles, sample different characters. You stop the Cambridge visits and mumble inarticulate responses when asked where you went to school...
Durgerian, who had stunned the court offensively with his backward over-the-head shots was modest. "My hair looked good," he said, "but I should have worn red socks. They would have matched my sneakers better...
...characters are superbly drawn. Lit from front and back simultaneously so that his hair glows around him like a halo, Sarastro is presented as a wise, paternal New Testament God. The Queen is very female and very nasty, the kind of role Bette Davis made unforgettable. Her malevolent, teeth-gnashing character is a product of the Mason's profound anti-female bias (as Sarastro explains the abduction to Pamina: "You need a man to guide you."). Prince Tamino, the initiate-to-be, has both ineffable simplicity and moral sturdiness. A trusting character, he's not terribly bright. He understands nothing...
...private Will has little of the charm and elegance of Will the writer. An unimposing six-footer with reddish hair and rimless glasses, he is given to casual dress and succinct answers that often consist of a single word or a single sentence. Self-confident to the point of arrogance, often curt, Will gives the impression of a man uninclined to suffer gools, gladly or otherwise. He answers questions in a monotone, seldom showing even a hint of emotion, except when he emphasizes a point by tapping a pencil on the desk in front...