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...PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE, by Peter Shaffer, are clever, stylish, airy and bittersweet. These two one-acters explore the moods of love, antic and frantic. The players-Barry Foster, Geraldine McEwan, Brian Bedford and Moray Watson -are attuned like a fine string quartet...
...husband and wife, Moray Watson and Geraldine McEwan strike precise discords. Barry Foster's vibrant Cristoforou is a more remarkable and indefinable creation, a Pan in spiv's clothing sounding pipes of pleasure that carry a lingering echo from ancient pagan groves...
...marine tropicals (very few have been bred in captivity) are high enough to give status to almost anybody. Commonest are Damsels at $2, Angels and Butterflies at $6 to $10 apiece. Sea horses cost about $3. But temptations abound. How exciting to make a pet of a toothy moray from Ceylon ($35), or a lion fish from the Red Sea ($35), who packs enough deadly poison in his spiny ugliness to kill a man. How exhilarating to be first kid on the block with a $400 trigger fish from Zanzibar...
...coming into one ear-such as a reference to the partygoer or his interests-it may switch its attention back and forth between the two ears as frequently as three times a second. "You don't actually listen to both at once," says Dr. Moray. "You make up gaps in the conversations by drawing on your past experience of language. This is particularly easy when a conversation is dull and repetitious. In the same way, if the listener is bored with the person to whom he is speaking, he may let his other ear range round other conversations...
...conversations are a mixture of basic cliches that do not tax the intelligence. "Once the brain perceives that something is part of a cliché" he says, "it switches off and starts groping for another message." When is it hardest for the partying human brain to function? Says Dr. Moray: "When one is bending over double, talking to a short girl...