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None of the other performers reach Harvey and Lehman's level, but they are always adequate and sometimes excellent. June Knight at one point does something marvelous with her lower jaw, which I haven't figured out yet, and makes herself into a young girl. Frederic Moorehouse in the central role of Moorehouse starts out a bit wobbly but gains control as the character grows older. Ann Lilley's performance is aided by her engaging face, fascinating body, and versatile voice. Sally Kirkland looks so charming in a beaded flapper dress that one can forgive her occasional awkward hand-wringing...
...roar. By the fifth round, Johansson's face was tight with apprehension. Slowly, his guard came down to protect a reddening body. As planned, Johansson was retreating from an attack when Patterson caught him with a rising left hook that landed flush on the side of the jaw. Johansson rolled flat on his back, then got to his knees while Patterson leaned on the ropes and flashed one of the rare, broad smiles of his career. Wobbling up at the count of nine, Johansson was ready for the kill. With a pro's cold fury, Patterson hounded...
...Critic Monteverdi was not the only one to be exasperated; walking up to U.S. Abstractionist Franz Kline (himself a $1,600 prizewinner), Fautrier reportedly told him that his work "stinks." Kline's reply, so the story goes, was a realistic right to the jaw that dumped Fautrier on the seat of his pants...
...Baltimore, following a long commencement program at the Bryn Mawr School, Gordon F. Scheckells was rushed to the hospital with his jaw locked open from an excessively wide yawn...
...main program was devoted to four Beethoven sonatas, to which Richter added works by Schubert, Schumann and Chopin as encores. Swaying, gyrating, twisting his face into gargoyle grimaces, Richter at times lowered his jutting jaw until it almost touched the keys, at other times threw his head back in a kind of trancelike reverie. His bravura passages had a grandeur with no hint of pounding, his pianissimos a feather lightness, and his crescendos or decrescendos were so tightly controlled that they seemed to swell and diminish like the modulations of a well-trained voice...