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Alfred said his course "is easy, but that doesn't mean it's gut." "Students are so good at it because it's the literature of their age," he said yesterday. Students claim the course "isn't graded terribly hard" and is relaxed. A final exam question last year asked for a comparison between Bonnie of Bonnie and Clyde and Desdemona of Othello...
Rafferty's sometimes dirty, sometimes lyrical fantasy about pool balls showed the most athletic imagination of the lot. The end of the fantasy, with pool balls jumping merrily out of the graves and pools of the Mount Auburn Cemetery isn't very effective; but generally the most ludicrous of his schemes are wonderful to watch, and even the least tasteful moments are very funny...
Extending this tenuous hypothesis, there isn't anything wrong in living with a sense of the twenties and thirties dervied largely from films. The prevalent social movements were depicted by artists possessed of style, social vision, and unshakeable personal morality. Griffith's prohibition film, The Struggle, offers an audience an extraordinary perspective on an era, as do Lang's You Only Live Once, Ford's The Grapes of Wrath, and of course Welles's Citizen Kane...
Dave Hammond opens the show with a repertoire of show tunes. This could be grim, but Hammond is from Dudley House and knows where it's at when it comes to Broadway. He isn't about to sing of hills alive with the sound of music. Rather, he launches into some of the great obscure and near-obscure songs of our time...
Hammond has a rich, resonant barritone that isn't always at home with his material. About half of his songs have more emotional meat than nearly any stylist can handle, and even this Dudley House gentleman cannot always get to the heart of the matter. At times he tends to be stiff in voice and movement; I wish he would let himself go more than he does. He obviously loves his stuff, and he would do his audience a favor by sharing this love more. Still, I'd walk a mile just to hear some of his tunes on Muzak...