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AFTER new Bosox hurler Mike Boddicker struck out Paul Molitor on a pitch that jitter-bugged its way across the plate and after Kevin Romine made a catch that could rival the Say Hey Kid's, I was hooked for the afternoon. By the eighth inning, I joined the Fenway faithful in a standing ovation for Boddicker. By the last out of the game, I was up on my feet...
Wednesday night is "Zoo Night" at Crazy Zach's, where drats are a whopping nickel from eight to ten. After loosening up for a quarter, dance the "shag", a predominantly southern dance resembling the jitter bug, done to "beach music," an adulteration of R&B revival hits...
Richard Pena's directing reaches its height as the eight now dead characters are confronted by Satan in preparation for their final judgements. Merging into one shivering, jello-like mass, the eight actors jitter and moan together with effective apprehension...
...soon as the insane stumble and jitter onstage with their dreadfully absent eyes, their bodily tics, their slavering mouths, their heads lolling like half-decapitated flowers, it is clear that the asylum keeper of the evening is Director Peter Brook. Abetted by the superbly disciplined Royal Shakespeare Company, Brook directs with the cool ferocity of a mad scientist, as if he were running a controlled experiment to see how much chilled sweat could be squeezed from the audience's brow. He uses every weapon in the theatrical arsenal to mount a sustained barrage on the senses. A sound track...
...more than an allegory, more than an amorous album. It is an inspired attempt to enlarge and liberate the language of film. Godard tries more cinematic tricks than most moviemakers risk in an entire career, and almost all of them come off. To make a shock scene jump and jitter, he boldly yanks occasional frames out of the sequence. To emphasize an idea, he brutally amputates an episode in mid-speech and lets a phrase fall through the mind like a severed hand. To retard a rhythm or invite a second thought, he serves up a fade so slow...