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...small, intimate stage becomes a handicap here. Every facial expression and every smudge of greasepaint is detectable. Farce, therefore, is perhaps too hectic a medium for such an intimate stage. The closeness of exaggerated gestures and the raucousness of the comedy become annoying, especially in this amateur production...
Come on-a My House. A hectic Armenian Hurry On Down with strange and wonderful words by Wild William Saroyan. (Kay Armen; King), (Rosemary Clooney; Columbia...
Scenic Spree. A Western Journal is the diary Wolfe kept on the hectic two-week trip through eleven parks in eight states (distance covered: 4,632 miles). Judged as literature, these hurried jottings are unimportant except to Wolfe students and cultists. But like his novels and stories, they reflect Wolfe's insatiable appetite for evidence of his country's natural variety and grandeur. He was, as a close friend remarked, "a man who could get drunk on scenery," and the Journal shows him on one of his happiest sprees...
...life-sized nude statue of Sabrina, goddess of Britain's Severn River, has led a hectic existence ever since a state official first presented her to Amherst College in 1857.* From the first, Amherst men heaped indignities upon her, painting stockings on her shapely limbs, clothing her in gaudy diapers, lugging her away from her pedestal to celebrate football victories. In the '80s, Amherst's president tried to banish her from the campus, but the janitor charged with her disposal confessed that he "couldn't kill a woman" and hid Sabrina in his own barn...
...Barkio (Spike Jones; Victor). The City Slickers do a bumptious doghouse lampoon of Arditi's coloratura favorite, Il Bacio. For all their hectic enthusiasm, it falls far short of Clara Cluck's classic henhouse version of the same old standard...