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What, then, are social historians to make of the "revolution" that overwrought fashion editors were declaring last week (see MODERN LIVING) after Yves Saint Laurent revealed his fall collection? What mysteries of the Zeitgeist were riding on the mannequins' shoulders? Saint Laurent's muse told him women will now look like czarist imitations of gypsies, booted peasants in $5,000 velvets and taffetas, long-limbed and slightly fantastic creatures. The feminine mystique becomes the feminine muzhik...
Meanwhile, her work over and her medals packed, Nadia Comaneci, the solemn muse of the Games, could leave for a Black Sea vacation with little concern that the second week of the Olympics would produce a star to outshine her. One cannot expect perfection too often...
With the heraldic pennants flying at Central Park's Delacorte Theater, Joseph Papp's production does not stint on pageantry. While the evening is workmanlike, it never truly evokes Shakespeare's "Muse of fire." Rudd's Henry seems apprenticed to his role rather than the master of it. Streep is a potent charmer as Katherine. Since I there is no admission charge, this is an enticing opportunity to follow Cole Porter's advice and "brush up your Shakespeare...
...matrons and their escorts like croupiers. The teenies had come for Al Pacino, but he was in New York. Prodded by the eupeptic booming of the outside master of ceremonies, they stayed to squeal at Walter Matthau and (in some puzzlement) at the evening's representative of the muse of irony, Gore Vidal. When Elizabeth Taylor, almost the last survivor of the studio star system for which the Oscar ceremony had been created, appeared on the walkway, it was like the arrival of a galleon in a weekend fleet of fiber-glass runabouts...
...NUMBERS (MCA; $6.98). Following his disappointing rock opera Quadrophenia, The Who's chief composer, Peter Townshend, has his dropout muse back in residence. The British rock quartet, unsettled by internal squabbles and individual efforts at solo LPs and films, pulled together for some properly granitic music making this time. Though there is no formal story line, the album is nonetheless slyly conceptual. Townshend's nine songs, plus John Entwistle's Success Story, evoke a rock star's fight against time. Nicky Hopkins' vigorous keyboards, added to the band's own mix of acoustic...