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...blocks: suburban klatsches of all sorts, whole schoolfuls of children, and Protestant, Catholic and Jewish lay groups, many of whom have heard Jesus Christ Superstar on records at church or temple. Simultaneously, religious groups, often from the same denominations as those flocking inside, proclaim outrage at the show and lament that it does not include Jesus' Resurrection. YOU'VE GOT YOUR STORY TWISTED! JESUS is THE LORD. The American Jewish Committee soberly considered whether Jesus Christ Superstar is good or bad for the Jews and decided that it's bad. It issued a seven-page study asserting that the show...
...perhaps, but nonetheless dumb. Consider a number like "Carried Away," sung by Ozzie and Claire de Lune, a female anthropologist played by Phillis Newman. (The two parts were played by Comden and Green in the original production.) It starts out promisingly, enough as the two love-crossed stars lament that their repressed natures are all too irrepressible (between the lines you can see that the humor is aimed at the same audience that would have appreciated Lady in the Dark), but ultimately it ends up sounding like the kind of clever parody that two gifted comics could extemporize...
...this same school can be found considerable work by Robert Bly, 44, a Harvardman, pacifist and founder of a poetry periodical devoted to new verse and progressively called The Fifties, The Sixties, The Seventies. Ely's The Teeth-Mother Naked At Last is a long, savage, sometimes murky lament against the horrors of the Viet...
From time to time, the camera breaks away from the center ring to inspect clowns in senescence, brittle little men who recall Falstaff's lament: "How ill white hairs become a fool." In the midst of unabashed gaiety, Fellini ushers in bitterness: an Italian lion tamer who trains his beasts in German because "it is the only human language that they understand." The film's zenith is a funeral staged con brio-the spectacular obsequies of a clown, his hearse drawn by men in horse suits, his widow a clown with pendulous breasts, the orator a grotesque...
...THAT this class failed to come up with the stuff in areas outside the publishing world. Jack Straus (of the Macy's family) was here fifty years ago and is still around to lament that his "greatest frustration in life [has been his] lack of athletic prowess." (Oh well. He survived.) A classmate of Straus's was Paul Tishman, and Mr. Tishman is an interesting case. In the class report, the Secretary notes that he has heard nothing about Mr. T since the 30th reunion, at which time "he wrote that he was in the contracting and building business." Talk...