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That is a reflection, perhaps, of a most conventional but lucky childhood. His father was a successful Manhattan lace importer who took the boy along on business trips to Europe. Carter foraged music shops in Vienna and Paris for Schoenberg and Stravinsky scores. Then came Harvard, where, save for Walter Piston and the visiting Gustav Hoist, "the teachers didn't like and didn't really understand one single thing about contemporary music...
...think, are capable of extrasensory perception, and even possess souls. Now another such literary endeavor has made its way onto the bestseller lists: The Bermuda Triangle (Doubleday; $7.95) by Charles Berlitz, grandson of the language-school founder. Like its predecessors, Triangle takes off from established facts, then proceeds to lace its theses with a hodgepodge of half-truths, unsubstantiated reports and unsubstantial science...
After meals, the pooch may have his teeth brushed with Happy Breath toothpaste or a new beef-flavored variety, then go out to be fitted for a hounds-tooth jacket, a gold bracelet, black lace panties, a lame evening gown, top hat and tails, Halloween outfit, caps, booties and pajamas. He may have his coat dyed to make him look younger, or work out on a jog-a-dog machine (at $575) to keep him in shape, or have his portrait painted in oils. There are clip-on diapers for parakeets, hairpieces and false eyelashes for poodles, snoods to keep...
Joni's tune in New York is captured in her first album, Song to a Seagull. It features a complete cast: rude cabby, disillusioned divorcee, lonely transient and demanding lover-all of whom rise above stereotype to complement the leather-and-lace personality of 24-year-old Joni Mitchell. In Cactus Tree, a song Joni describes as a "grocery list of men I've liked, or loved, or left behind," she weighs her freedom against the merit of several suitors before dismissing them...
Arsenic and Old Lace is that old play about two old women in an old mansion in Brooklyn who knock people off with poisoned elderberry wine, a play that a lot of people seem to think is funny. The Leverett House production is very well done, though. Fri. at 8 p.m. and midnight...