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...current production by the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players, although gimmick-ridden, is a fine one, with choreography that seems to belong in a far more lavish production, and excellent performances by the principals. The crew of the famous ship whirls and leaps in a comic dance, with several planned encores. The dancing is excellent, but at times choreographer Ruth Perrenod and director Lindsay Davis push a little too hard. While Ralph Rackstraw (Thomas Fuller) sings his love Madrigal a member of the chorus and a ballerina waft about the deck of the ship. The scene is syrupy enough without...
...paneled office in the green-roofed presidential palace in Riyadh. He never uses the sprawling $60 million palace built by the profligate Saud. When an interior decorator had a sumptuous bath installed just off Feisal's bedroom in the villa, the King ordered it replaced with a less lavish model. "We are a simple family," he explained...
...railroad, by 1,000 miles by 1979. In all, Tanaka is calling for enlarging the tracks for bullet trains to 4,500 miles within the next dozen years. Though Tanaka's political opponents agree that JNR must be improved, they argue that the $40 billion plan is too lavish and will give a big push to inflation, already at 13%. The unions are not overly impressed either. They plan yet another paralyzing rail slowdown next month...
...talented alcoholic who discovers that his tragedy lay in failing to realize that salvation was not in heaven but in loving on earth. Lowry's vision of heaven and hell is not religious but symbolic in a rather overly literary way. This is to say nothing of his lavish, interior decorator's use of mysticism and the occult. The novel does have considerable power and cohesiveness. But it is the cohesiveness of a desperately inventive mind that bends all to fit its private torment. It is not condescending to say, however, that Under the Volcano is the century...
...Boswell, A Bad Man and The Dick Gibson Show, Stanley Elkin demonstrated lavish verbal and comic gifts, a generosity of spirit and a talent for staging extravaganzas of the absurd. If his plots lurched and his ideas went off like random flares, Elkin's characters commanded attention because of the manic way they acted out their necessities...