Word: ids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Houston Ballet, Artistic Director Ben Stevenson keeps the children id line by threatening to toss them out for missing one rehearsal. There is not much he can do about the parents. One mother actually strode onstage during a key rehearsal and grabbed her child away because the family was having a dinner party. "It's a chore," Stevenson confesses. "But the merit is getting the children into the theater both on the stage and in the audience." At a performance in San Antonio, he says, "you could hear the children in the audience screaming with joy when Fritz scares...
...mind of Forbidden Planet. A lightheaded piece of American scifi, Forbidden Planet (1956) was a genial reworking of The Tempest in which some American astronauts were trapped on a distant planet. There a wizard, a stand-in for Prospero, conjured up an unconquerable force field of "monsters from the id." Hearing this, one of the astronauts inquired without hesitation, "What's the id?" The people who made Solaris may be beyond such inspired silliness, but pomposity is no fair substitute...
...that is true enough, but the real problem is that Chayefsky has betrayed his own truest instinct about the medium. At one point he has William Holden, the news executive who functions as the movie's superego, inform Faye Dunaway, the ratings-mad exec who is its id, that the trouble with TV is that it reduces everything to banality. That may well be true. But at every turn Chayefsky's plot invests television with a sinister power to cloud men's minds, not through stupefying reductionism but by heated exaggeration. In short, his fable does...
...November 22; I had written only four pages of a long overdue 10-page Soc Sci 2 paper; my first Harvard hourly (a 'D' in Nat Sci 17) had been returned two days before; and the farthest Id been from my stuffy Hollis room since September 12 was Harvard Stadium, except for a trip to Anthony's Pier 4 and a couple of jaunts to Hurlbut...
...pickup joint near the Square is, of course, the Casablanca, under the Brattle Theater. Upstairs at the Casa B. is always full of single women, while the downstairs is generally preppie. They make good mixed drinks, though. The Casab tends to card more than most Cambridge bars, so bring ID, real or otherwise...