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SWEET CHARITY. As a dance-hall dolly whose heart is leaden but whose feet are mercury, Gwen Verdon is effusive. The slickness of Bob Fosse's choreography is suffusive. What there is of Neil Simon's book is elusive...
SWEET CHARITY. As a dance-hall dolly whose heart is leaden but whose feet are mercury, Gwen Verdon is effusive. The slickness of Bob Fosse's choreography is suffusive. What there is of Neil Simon's book is elusive...
There were paintings, sculpture, dance and music-of a sort. At the happenings that Kaprow and his colleagues staged, the "actors" splashed paint on canvas, played electronic John Cage music, danced like puppets with leaden strings, climbed up cardboard mountains, peeled oranges and clothes on stage. To get the audience into the act, they gave them newspapers to tear up, even ran their hands up female spectators' legs...
Notably successful in straightening out the tangled prose of the Pauline Epistles, the Confraternity translation occasionally falters into leaden phrasing in the Gospels. The parable of the sower and the seed (Matthew 13:24-30) begins with all the grace of an Agriculture Department bulletin: "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to the situation of a farmer who sowed good seed in his field...
Last week, 100 years later to the day, 17,000 people gathered under a leaden sky at the Appomattox Court House to witness the centennial commemoration...