Word: meshed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With an aptly symbolic hand, the bril liant Rumanian director-designer Liviu Ciulei has erected a high mesh screen across the middle of Joseph Papp's off-Broadway Public Theater. All scenes of institutional ritual occur behind it. Before it is a leafy ground of freedom where the high school children escape to their for bidden trysts and utter the long and some times lustrous thoughts of youth...
DYLAN TRIES TO FIT a ballad into his new style in "Changin of the Guard", but cannot quite pull it off. The ballad's lyrics, full of the never-quite-clear symbols Dylan has used with such relish over the past few years, just does not mesh with the music; the keyboard work is a little too slick, the background vocals...
...World According to Garp is a long family novel, spanning four generations and two continents, crammed with incidents, characters, feelings and craft. The components of black comedy and melodrama, pathos and tragedy, mesh effortlessly in a tale that can also be read as a commentary on art and the imagination...
...Francis Faye's Madam Nell, the whorehouse madam. She delivers a series of deadpan wise-cracks with the dry timing of a George Burns, and this cool sexual sarcasm produces a clever variation on Mae West's old routines. But in the end the bit doesn't mesh with the plot; it is precisely because of her toughness that we fail to be touched her Madame Nell goes crazy after the authorities shut down the brothel. The house's black piano player, played by Antonio Fargas and presumably modeled after Jelly roll Morton, provides the other. Yet his relation...
...TENDENCY to perform an orchestral work as if it were simply a group of arbitrary, colorless sounds is so prevalent--particularly among non-professional orchestras--that one should be especially thankful when all the elements of dynamics, color and suggestive language mesh. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra's performance Saturday night, far from being methodical or colorless, succeeded in conveying all the evocative moods and imaginative instrumentation of Debussy, Saint-Saens and Dvorak...