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...Louis, Amanda Wingfield (Melissa Mueller) has ruled her son and daughter with badgering questions and faded Southern charm. With bent wrist gestures pursed lips and an admirably even accent. Mueller aggravates Tom with admonitions that he smokes too much and chews his food too little, and tortures shy Laura with reminiscences of her years as a belle in Blue Mountain...
...nothing to break your date at the soda shop for. The group displayed a polished -- if mechanical -- mastery of that amorphous brand of Fifties songs that made the Chiffons what they are today. There were the usual highlights -- "At the Hop," "Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay," "Tell Laura I Love Her" -- and they all came off with a slick dexterity. But none of the songs made you really want to throw Mary Lou over your shoulder in mid-jitterbug or snuggle up in an end-of-the-dance waltz. The old magic just wasn't there...
...LAURA T. BARNDT...
...premiere danseuse Judith Jamison. Elegant of long limb, eloquent of stride and poise, Jamison epitomizes Ailey's ideal of the total dancer. Ailey has created a work that has become for Jamison the kind of showpiece that The Dying Swan was for Pavlova. Cry, set to music by Laura Nyro, Alice Coltrane and others, embodies the pain and pride of black women everywhere...
Cervilla, the team captain, grabbed a second place in the 50-yd. butterfly and took a strong fourth in the 100-yd. competition. Other team scoring came from the 400-yd. freestyle relay team (Julie Bradley, Sato, Cervilla and Costin) and the 200-yd. medley (Laura Lennihan, Sato, Costin and Cervilla...