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...most remarkable scene in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution reunites Holmes with the fine nose of the hound Toby, but the scent they are following is not the foul musk of creosote, that criminal excrescence from The Sign of the Four, but the rather innocuous odor of a man who is steeped to the ankles in vanilla extract. This may be a fine touch for the Sherlockian satirist--and there have been plenty of them--but it hardly befits the genius of Watson. Because of preposterous insertions, like this pun: "You've a real gift for telling a tale, Watson...
...score sticks in your ear like wax. The lyrics consist of ditties that a fifth-grader would not dare to pass in to his English teacher. The star (Kay Ballard) spins through her numbers like a treadless tank. She lacks the remotest trace of that sweetly enveloping maternal musk with which Gertrude Berg so winningly invested her creation, Molly Goldberg, in the vastly popular radio and TV serials spanning the years 1929-1954. Alan Arkin has directed the show the way a bartender jiggles a martini shaker, apparently hoping that agitation will pass for action. As for the Great Depression...
...Jane Musk's set looks gloriously like a long neglected junk shop, but the sound man does have to learn to deep his thoughts to himself when the wrong tape gets played. Special recognition must go to the outstanding rabbit, who carries off his role with great elan, even when he almost falls off a table...
There is some interesting material in the book, especially about women's communes in shabby Boston suburbs like Somerville and Allston. Someone is always arriving with two or three little children. Everyone is tired, broke and oddly exhilarated. Even in these scenes without men, the musk of female superiority is heavy indeed. The children grow strong, tough and alert. Organic rye bread rises on every page, along with wheat germ, Granola and currents. Sex with another woman seems a sure cure for repression. Beth learns "to love with her body, to express with her body, to know with...
...that it is one of the pinnacles of the art of musical comedy? Hardly. What Pippin possesses is splendiferous theatricality, the kick of a lightning bolt and a passionate professional knack for being entertaining. The show satisfies the popular non-platonic ideal of a US musical. It has the musk of sexuality, firecracker dance numbers, sunshiny songs and smashing girls that the gods of Olympus might ogle...