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Taylor has always tested limits. Older pieces (going back as far as 1956) included in the current program confirm the breadth of his skill. Le Sucre du Printemps (The Rehearsal) (1980) pits a Chicago-style gangster and his moll against gray-clad ciphers in a workers' state, concluding in a massacre. Private Domain (1969) exposes a beach full of muscle builders, sexual athletes and Esther Williams-style chorus lines. Orbs (1966) harks back to the wedding scene in Martha Graham's landmark Appalachian Spring. Here, however, the screwball marriage takes place in "Terrestrial Autumn," where a drunk polkas...
...patois) rarely gets more sophisticated than "Aieee! Kuda! Ma pooka ma bobo aloonda zug-zug fech macha!"* But Ringo is splendid leading his tribe in man's first jam session, and the rest of the cast is fully up to the demands of the script. Kudos to Richard Moll as an Abominable Snowman who shambles around like Groucho Marx in sopping-wet fake fur, and to an animated Tyrannosaurus rex who deserves next ear's Oscar for Best Supporting Thing, ^ow how about a remake of Bedtime for Bonzo? -By Richard Corliss...
...Bloomsbury. "Life would split asunder without letters," she maintained in Jacob 's Room. Her massive correspondence shows her weaving a variegated web to hold it together. She pours out affection and admiration to her sister, Vanessa Bell, whom she wonderfully characterizes as a mixture of pagan goddess and Moll Flanders. She is ardent and extravagant to Vita Sackville-West, with whom she has a love affair and later slips into a "warm slipper" relationship. She is fondly exasperated and patient with Ethel Smyth, considerate to friends (like the dying Janet Case) who are in need, practical and encouraging...
Faculty members at U.C.S.C. are anxiously awaiting the fruits of Moll's efforts, and have even pitched in by personally telephoning prospective students and offering to answer questions about the school. This year applications have increased. Many faculty members fear, though, that Santa Cruz's narrative evaluation system is threatened by the enrollment drive. Last year the academic senate came close to authorizing optional grading for students who desired it. Says American Politics Professor Karl Lamb: "If you have both systems, the grade, which is much easier to give, will drive out the evaluations." Adds his faculty colleage...
...Responds Moll: "I'm torn. I like the idea and what it means to Santa Cruz tradition, but high schoolers - and their parents - perceive it as a real liability. I'm faced with the hard fact that it doesn't seem to sell...