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...week of Leap Year day, the calendar has tips on feminist wedding ceremonies-omit the word "obey" from the traditional vows, write your own marriage ritual: "We promise to love, cherish, and groove on each other and all living things. We promise to smash the alienated family unit . . . We promise these things until choice do us part." For the second week in April, there is a self-defense karate lesson: "To use this right-foot snap-kick . . ." Nature hints: "Some fish reverse more than just sex roles-they actually consume the other gender." Nonviolent put-off for a masher...
Michael Bennet--who's here making the leap from choreographer to director--has had the courage to let Furth's text speak for itself. In one or two cases, he shows he has the ability deftly to pull off an elaborate visual joke, but mostly he simply allows his actors to sit and talk, a jarringly natural kind of talk that can be rivetting in its lack of pretense. Furth does manage to slip in one or two aphorisms, but generally he wisely settles for just those chuckles of recognition this cast is skilled at eliciting...
...innovative glamour accounts for the recent leap. The 1972 model year started out with little new except strengthened bumpers. What brought most of the spurt was the freeze-produced sales of 1972-model cars at early-1971 prices, as well as the $200 excise tax cut that President Nixon has proposed. If, as expected, Congress approves the cut, dealers will refund the tax to customers. American Motors has in fact been making excise-tax refunds even before Congress acts; the company's sales jumped 50% in September, compared with the same month in 1970. Whether or not the sales...
...More powerful than Abbie Hoffman! Faster on the guff than Bella Abzug! Able to leap Baron Munchausen in a single bound! It's Supercop Jack Muller, the Chicago letter-of-the-law man who for 25 years has been causing pain and embarrassment to that city's politicians, smug elite and privileged hoodlums...
...those years Pound was, by any measure, an extraordinary man. He was the American poet who read the Classics diligently, mixing Idaho slang with Italian, Latin and Greek. He was the enthusiast who could leap and tap-dance his way through the streets of Venice after watching a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers film. He was the public figure who had his own strong theories of economics and who travelled to America with hopes of preventing war between the U.S. and Italy, and of selling his friend Mussolini to F.D.R. When his daughter was fully weaned from the mountain soil...