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Wednesday, November 24 FRANK SINATRA-A MAN AND HIS MUSIC (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Still another Sinatra special, this time a one-man musical show: no dancers, no comics, no production numbers-just the king, alone on his throne, singing...
...played the "inscrutable" game, he might have looked like that indeed, bending over the plate in knickers and Norfolk jacket and slamming line drives all over the field. The thought amused English Actor Bramwell Fletcher, 60, as he assembled his evening of Shavian sport, The Bernard Shaw Story, a one-man show now playing in Manhattan. Fletcher gleaned a few lines from Shaw's 1925 essay "This Baseball Madness," and added them to his impersonation. Wielding his unlikely prop, Fletcher-Shaw muses: "As far as I can grasp it, baseball combines the best features of primitive cricket, lawn tennis...
...miles a day to and from work. Then in 1943, Composer Michael Tippett, in search of a lead voice for a series of Purcell concerts, auditioned Deller. "In that one moment," recalls Tippett, "the centuries rolled back. Deller's voice is like no other sound in music, and no other sound is so intrinsically musical." His debut was a grand success, and at 31 he found himself a one-man renaissance hailed by London critics as responsible for "the rebirth of the countertenor...
...one-man, one-vote principle demanded for states in the Supreme Court's reapportionment decisions can legally be applied to counties and other local districts, asserted Archibald Cox '34, Samuel Williston Professor of Law and exsolicitor General of the United States, in an informal address at Lowell House last night...
...customized car lingo in their textures: chrome and riots of rainbow "flake" (colored metal chips frozen in sprayed vinyl) finishes. They take the serpentine ripple of flames painted on the sides of racing cars, the flapping forms of the parachutes used to slow giant dragsters. Before Laing's one-man show in Manhattan opened last week at the Richard Feigen Gallery, they also were completely sold...