Word: marvells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yale troupe invests the silly plot with style, wit and perfect timing. The score is something more-a Kurt Weill marvel. Not only were the famous Bilbao Song and Surabaya Johnny written for this musical, but also half a dozen other numbers of rare distinction. They range from Song of the Big Shot ("Just don't get soft, baby/ For god's sake never get soft, baby/ No ifs or buts/ Go on and kick him in the guts/ Go on and kick him in the guts. ") to Throw Out the Lifeline-Soul Overboard. By turns, the music...
Providence. R.I.--Whoever conceived the idea of the home court advantage should have been here last night. After dropping four straight contests in the IAB, the Crimson cagers stormed into Marvel Gym and sneaked away with a 64-63 triumph over Bruins' Ivy championship hopes...
...pleasures: honest work, the rhythm of seasons, the love of relatives and friends, the stubborn persistence of hope when it should have vanished. The Southern black dialect has chiefly been trivialized through minstrelsy or strained through literate translators. Shaw's unlettered language shames past caricatures; it is a marvel of utility, supple enough to take what the world offers each day and make it new. When he speaks of "the fall of the year," he is not reading from a calendar but describing what he has seen in the fields. Similes are there to surprise and delight: a mule...
...polyrhythms long before those techniques emerged in the works of Stravinsky and other 20th century musical giants. As Composer Aaron Copland puts it in his preface to the Perlis book: "No one before him had ever ventured so close to setting down on paper sheer musical chaos. The marvel is that he got away with...
...entire production at Manhattan's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater is laudable in its clarity and lack of gimmickry. The spare, pillared set of Santo Loquasto is a marvel of economy, and the tasteful costumes of John Conklin never distract from Shakespeare's lines, an unmixed blessing, considering who wrote them...