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THERE'S an element of tyranny involved in the "Theater Two" performance of the Orson Welles' new live show. It's the kind of tyranny you'd expect in modern "audience involvement" theater productions, but it's strangely out of place here in this mediocre, nouveau-vaudeville entertainment...
Richard Benjamin, who played the eager young nebbish in Goodbye, Columbus, plays the same man here, now successful but no less insecure. With the obsessive concern of the nouveau riche he pesters his wife about her clothes, about party invitations that she must send out, about choosing the proper wine, and so forth. Tina is being pecked not by a rooster but by a hen. Her lover, on the other hand, comes on as a virile, aggressive bastard with a sexy smile-and you know that if her husband were to find about the affair he would probably...
...Exhausted. Early one morning last week, Mishima turned in to his publisher the final portion of his quartet of novels, The Sea of Fertility. Named after one of the moon's cold, empty seas, the quartet describes the conflicts of Japan's hereditary aristocracy and the nouveau riche from 1912 to 1970, and portrays the barrenness that Mishima saw in contemporary life. In a letter written on Nov. 17 to Harold Strauss, his editor at Knopf in New York, Mishima said: "In it I have put everything I felt and thought about life and the world." He added...
...educated Gerald Stiebel, 25, great-grandson of the founder. Rosenberg and Stiebel handle million-dollar sales with casual aplomb. The Metropolitan bought the Merode altarpiece for the Cloisters through them ("Probably our most important sale," says Father Eric Stiebel). Paul Magriel builds entire collections in some special area (Art Nouveau furniture, American still lifes), then calls in other dealers to dispose of them as a package...
...hippie social season. If the kids who turned up were not dressed to the teeth, they were at least dressed to the noses. In addition to the usual headbands, see-through tops, togas, bell-bottoms and union jackets, many of the girls had their noses painted in art nouveau pinks and blues. Bare feet pattered up and down the red-carpeted aisles while the sweet, light, pervasive smell of pot drifted through the darkness toward the ceiling...