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...busy building instruments to play his special music; he was, he said, "a philosophic musicman seduced into carpentry." He put a long neck on a viola to give it "microtonal capabilities"-then he built his Surrogate Kithara, a two-deck, 16-string zither that looks like a pair of overgrown abacuses without the beads. Next came the "Bamboo Marimba" (which Partch affectionately calls "the Boo"), a 64-piece, six-tiered assembly of bamboo rods to be struck by sticks padded with felt. Rising to the grandeur of his tasks, he finally produced the Spoils of War-a big and ugly...
There was a serf who led a very unfortunate life. His landlord, pretending to goodness, gave him a lot overgrown with wood. "Work it," he said, "and it shall be yours...
...river to my people!" But it is O'Toole who continually dominates the screen, and he dominates it with professional skill, Irish charm and smashing good looks. They are the looks of a healthy young lion: large strong animal mouth, blazing blue eyes, big graceful head overgrown with a golden mane. (Lawrence by comparison was something of a mouse: his coloring was drab, and he stood scarcely 5 ft. 5 in.-a full head shorter than O'Toole.) In his performance, O'Toole catches the noble seriousness of Lawrence and his cheap theatricality, his godlike arrogance...
...Venice and is set upon by a pair of memorable literary harpies: Miss Mathilde Kollwitz, a mosquito-sized Winnetka music teacher who perennially knits a succession of moose-sized sweaters, and Miss Winifred Throop, a mountainous ex-headmistress who wears a red wig as proudly as she does her overgrown schoolgirl's faith in True Love...
Last week Burns announced that he would debut next month at the Seattle World's Fair with a new double act. His partner: Comedienne Carol Charming, 41 ,the overgrown (5 ft. 9 in.) pixy who was diamond-digging Lorelei Lee in Broadway's long-running Gentlemen Prefer Blondes...