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...loathsome characters named Rusty and Salty set out to feast on steel auto accessories but were frustrated by "rust-free aluminum" ("I'm having a bad time, Salty. This side trim is aluminum"). Setting out to do likewise, Great Lakes Steel has recently sponsored commercials in which "Lulu La Lumium," a Tallulah-voiced aluminum bumper, is constantly banged and bent by a steel bumper with a strong masculine voice. Sample dialogue...
...Lulu: Ouch! Say, big boy, why did you let me bump you? You've messed...
...hits of last summer's Munich Festival, where she appeared as the Marschallin in Rosenkavalier and Fiordiligi in Cosi Fan Tutte. Brooklyn's Evelyn Lear, 31, of West Berlin's State Opera created a sensation at the Vienna Festival in Alban Berg's Lulu. Her Texas-born husband, Baritone Thomas Stewart, 31, was a surprise success as Amfortas in last summer's Parsifal at Bayreuth. Florida-born Negro Soprano Maroyne Betsch, 25, won rave reviews for her Salome with the Braunschweig Opera. In Bern, Tennessee-born Chloë Owen made outstanding debuts in Lohengrin...
...nicest girl Sinatra's ever gone with-Nicer than Ava, Lauren, Kim, Kyle, Candy, Kitty, Sally, Shirley, Terri, Patti, Marta, Milly, Lana, Lulu, and Lady Beatty...
...opera's biggest failing is that it never makes clear the source of Lulu's deadly charm, and the audience is unable to sympathize with her or her victims. At several points, e.g., when an elderly butler confesses in an aside that he himself is smitten with Lulu, the spectators usually break into titters. Musically more advanced than Berg's only other opera, Wozzeck (TIME, March 16), Lulu has little of Wozzeck's compelling dramatic power. Remarkably, only 25 years after its premiere, the most experimental opera of one of the century's most experimental...