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Sexually, '50s youth talked a far better game than they played. There was a great deal of enthusiastic probing and, once in a while, a couple went "all the way." As befit that benighted era, the girl could thereupon be labeled as anything from a swinging chick to damaged...
Falstaff, Verdi's masterful comic opera based on Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" is at the Boston Summer Opera Theater Friday and Saturday nights and next weekend as well. The summer opera is a good institution: for its patrons, it provides low prices and English-language librettos, and...
Beecher is nearly prose-flat, simplistic, partial to Walt Whitman's "barbaric yawp" and defiant about it: "Must I be schooled,/ veil plain speech in symbolic fog, costume/ polemics for a merry morris dance,/ practice new types of ambiguity . . .?" He can be perversely unsophisticated, monotonously on the side of...
Strangers on a Train features Robert Walker with a look in his eye and a voice tone that will wind its way into the core of your memory. Hitchock's film, written by Raymond Chandler ("The Big Sleep," "Farewell, My Lovely," "The Long Goodbye"), is one of his best, with...
Footnote: "The Washington Merry-Go-Round" passed from Drew Pearson, who never called the subjects of his stories before they were printed, to Jack Anderson, who does, maybe someday it will pass from Jack Anderson, who doesn't seem to worry about in-depth investigating of long-range topics, to...