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Every court must have a king. Jerome Robbins is the monarch of West Side Story. Beyond that, he is the Jove of theater choreography. His dances are thunder bolts of invention, and his dancers are the messengers of his precise, uncompromising will. From the faintest twitch of a shoulder to hurricane tides of mass action, he is the master of the rhetoric of bodily motion. He can turn his dancers into airborne balletic Ariels who touch the ground merely to skip skyward again...
Senators, stop fiddling (and politicking) while Rome is running out of oil [Dec. 17]! For Jove's sake, act promptly and responsibly on our energy problem...
...Cross-Gartered Scene, I don't understand why Rabb changes each occurrence of Jove to God. And his costumer, like the Startford one, has skimped on the cross-gartering. In proper cross-gartering, it is not enough to enclose just the kneecap; the crisscrossing should go all the way down the leg to the foot, as in the well-known 18th-century Malvolio painting by Ramberg. In the Prison Scene it is poor staging that allows us to see only Malvolio's hands sticking through a basement window. Still, Rabb's is a portrayal to cherish, right...
...mine. Oater, one of the men shouts in a state policeman's face, "Bailey! I know you! You're a damn disgrace to the Bailey family!" Somebody says of Basil Carr, "He had the nerve to run for sheriff." Later the sheriff will try to get strikers to jove a car out of the roadway so scabs can get through, and Lois Scott, a leader of the miners' wives, attacks him for aiding with the scabs. The community's feelings spring up froj having known each other all their lives; the atmosphere is caught in a song written...
Delights!) in license rude, and like the Jove...