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Candy is not dandy for long; fighting the old ennui, Montand takes on a new assignment in Viet Nam. After he is listed as missing, wife and mistress separately recall the husband-lover who may be dead. Girardot muses over a few dry scraps of memories, while Bergen recites a maundering monologue: "I think I lost my youth ... a man of 40 stole it ... I'll fall in love with an American from Houston or Memphis . . . have children named John or Elizabeth . . ." After such a drizzly forecast, it is no wonder that when Montand is released by the Viet...
...presented with a mink coat-if she got one at all. "Today," says Sam Mellon, manager of Chicago's Evans Furs, "they're buying them at 19 or 20." One of the reasons is that mink coats, formerly the badge of the successful matron (or mistress), have succumbed to the youth-oriented trend in fashion. Coats are now short, shaped to the body and sometimes come pieced together to create checks, stripes and herringbone patterns...
...duteous to the vices of thy mistress...
...certainly in full view throughout the Mahler. The orchestra's performance was rife with premature entrances, bad ensemble, sloppy (though assidious) passagework and poor intonation. On the whole, the woodwinds came off better than the strings, though everyone seemed to be working hard. Marilyn Malpass was a model concert-mistress, at all times attentive to the conductor and heroically attempting to bring the rest of the section along with her. Oboist Carl Schlaikjer was shaky in the second movement, but recovered by the sixth and spun out some of the most mellifluous, well-shaped line I have ever heard...
Seltzer's Fisk is immediately impressive, ultimately superb. He has been stuffed from neck to calf and uses his enormous bulk convincingly to great advantage. He sways dangerously back and forth when faced by his dissatisfied mistress, breaks into an anguished trot to keep up with his evermoving lunatic father in the magnificent asylum scene, paws the stage instinctively like a bull, and is forever grabbing objects with intent to break or mangle, only to realize frustratedly that he has no reason to break them. "Your hands, Jim. Always your hands," says Josie resisting his brusque advances; sensing the importance...