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...great talent, he displayed a cavalier attitude toward the mundane aspects of his work, which sometimes invited criticism. He scorned rehearsals, frequently played hooky and provoked one conductor to waspishly observe that, if nothing else, one could depend on Melchior to make the same mistakes. While that judgment was harsh, it is true that during one of his umpteen performances of Tristan, Melchior fell asleep onstage, waking only when the mighty Flagstad fell over him at the conclusion of the Liebestod. But his dedication to his art was such that when he fractured his big toe during a performance...
...ugly thing; this sullen hateful dead mouth; with no remembrances of the soft or ungentle touches it once knew from flowers, or snowballs, a night-stick, a stone, or clean linen. It knows only its tight evil grip to the harsh teeth behind...
Heaven. As acting director of the FBI, Gray was at first well received by field agents. He sent out a flurry of directives loosening some of Hoover's harsh restrictions on their conduct. He said that he had "no hangups on white shirts," and permitted more colorful attire and allowed agents to wear longer hair. He dropped some of the Monday-morning second-guessing from Washington. Agents could for the first time keep Government cars at home overnight instead of having to drive to a central garage after a long day. They could even drink coffee at their desks. With...
...unfortunate that the Code and Rating Administration will not let kids see it in theaters unless their parents (or "an adult guardian") can get them past Wattstax's R classification. Such a harsh rating was assigned presumably because of the scruffy slang in the film, the sort of language street kids hear and use every day. It is a part of life that they all share, but one that the censors, by some convoluted hypocrisy, would forbid them onscreen...
...Sticks and Bones, was yanked off the network schedule three days before air time. The winner of last year's Tony Award, David Rabe's play is a bitter but brilliant satire of conventional American attitudes toward the war in Viet Nam. It was too harsh for many of CBS's affiliate stations, which screened it in a closed-circuit transmission from the network. Although pre-reviews had already appeared in the national press (TIME, March 12), a total of 71 of the 184 stations that normally carry CBS's programming during the time-slot assigned...