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...murmurs sententiously, "a bourgeois lost in the arts, an artist with a troubled conscience." The story peters out with Tonio in Denmark, daydreaming on the beach about blonde Inges and brunette Lisavetas, and a life of lonely reverie. He is trapped, he thinks, "between sanctity and lust...
Threatening Traps. "After you've been in the business a few years," explains Chad Stuart, who is now working on an "oratorio" to be called The Election, "you get cured of the lust for money and you want to produce something-well, heavy." Other experimental rock composers seem motivated more by a restlessness to burst out of conventional molds. San Francisco's Steve Miller, who is writing a suite that will combine Stockhausen-influenced elec tronic music with rhythm-and-blues, says simply: "I don't dig three-minute sections." Classical and Jazz Composer Bill Russo, director...
...owes at least a part of his success to his lust for anti-establishment humor. When the Avatar was banned in Cambridge for obscenity, its next issue contained a purposely filthy editorial, loaded with all the foul language the writer could muster. Uncle T promptly asked Avatar's editors to visit his show, and they conducted a reading of the article--with T inserting a whistled be-boop for every fourletter word...
...Euripides, the most skeptical and psychologically minded of the classic tragedians, recognized that man is sometimes his own worst fate. Iphigenia in Aulis, presented last week at Manhattan's Circle in the Square in a translation by Minos Volanakis, shows men and women undoing themselves through ambition, power, lust, fear, guile and egocentric arrogance. At its heart, however, the play is a Grecian urn of tears, an incomparably moving lament for all who die young in war. Directed with musical cadence and poetic tension by Michael Cacoyannis, the drama drags human folly and grief screaming into the light...
Though the marquees scream about a VOLCANO OF SMOLDERING PASSION!, the view inside is little more than a Playboy peep show, less glossy but just as sexless. Lust is a popeyed man ogling a barmaid's cleavage, virginity a lacquered ex-stripper trying to look like a wide-eyed schoolgirl caught up in the evil ways of the big city. Usually, there are only random glimpses of breasts and bottoms, although lately the nudies have been edging closer to the limits of pornography with a rash of "sadie-massies" that drag in homosexuality, flagellation, voyeurism, lesbianism and assorted orgies...