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They weren't playing their good songs, just their hack-around junk. They were listless and basically uncaring. When the Dead are good, they are truly magical--they can create a frenzy out of nothing. But even "Dark Star" was done mostly (so it seemed) for form's sake. It was a crumb thrown to their fans in lieu of a real "Evening With the Grateful Dead"--the mystical communion of souls and music that only the Dead can initiate and then sustain. Lately, their magic hasn't been much in evidence...
...found in this exhibit, even though artists of about the same historical period are represented (i.e., Beardsley, Blake). Eugene Delacroix, 19th century French rebel of classicism did not fear losing the charm of his drawing. Reclining Tiger, and from his sketches of a spotted leopard and a listless, striped tiger, framed he fearful symmetry of a wide-eyed beast of prey, Tigre Royale. Where in pencil, the tiger's feet were merely misshaped ovals, in lithograph form, the cat's paws took on the stream-lined and savage spikes of track shoes. His feline groin is striped like a surreal...
...given over to programmatic dance sequences which Field (apparently in fear of comparisons with Jerome Robbins' original stagings) never fully utilizes. But, gee, Mr. Field, there are those of us who weren't even around to see the original so you do have give us something better than the listless mime that comprises the "Miss Turnstyle Ballet" and the tentative exercises that accompany "Lonely Town." As it now stands, On the Town needs to find a rhythm...
What Was Relevant. One such stop-out is Hillary Emmer, 21. After two years as a listless biology student at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Hillary announced that she was quitting school to "find out what is happening in the world." She zigzagged among half a dozen jobs, made herself an expert on local rent law and won a suit against her landlord. Then she took her $500 court award and hitchhiked across the country. This fall, she finally returned to Buffalo, switched her major from biology to community education, and turned on an enthusiasm...
...gets tangled up in the ill fortunes of his passenger, a hit man with a cheap line of chatter (Tony Musante) and his girl (Trish Van Devere), who is supposed to be a moll but looks a good deal more like a Peck & Peck model. The suspense is so listless that the characters seem considerably less likely to perish from gunshot than from atrophy...