Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mythology that is growing around Jarrell started with his death. He died, "an apparent suicide" the papers and newsweeklies reported. But Mrs. Jarrell wrote letters to Time and Newsweek, explaining that her husband was wearing dark clothes and "a favorite pair of brown gloves, that the road was narrow and badly lighted, and that the car brushed past him at approximately 45 m.p.h. bruising his shoulder and glancing the side of his head at windshield height, causing instant death." Like Jay in Agee's A Death in the Family, there wasn't a mark on him, but suddenly...
...crowd of onlookers watched with an air of festive enthusiasm. One student ran to his room and played "Baby, Won't You Light My Fire" over and over. The spectators cheered on the fire men and cheered Hackbarth as he emerged from his room with a salvaged pair of bongo drums...
...virtuosity, which is not. Of the 18 works in its repertory only one (a restaging by Director Brian Macdonald of The Firebird) ranks as a classic standby. The other 17 range from abstract studies in pure motion to dance translations of contemporary headlines. In Stuart Hodes' Abyss, a pair of fragile lovers are attacked by three hoodlums; Rudi van Dantzig's Monument for a Dead Boy poignantly traces an adolescent's struggles against parental misunderstanding at home and the temptations of life outside, with an ambiguous outcome suggesting either death or maturity; in Sebastian, John Butler...
...theme and tone, How I Won the War represents something of a departure for Lester, who at 35 is critically regarded as one of the best comedy directors in the business, a camera master of the tour de farce. From his first cinematic success with a pair of Beatle capers, A Hard Day's Night and Help! through The Knack and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, he has operated with a cheerful disregard for time, reality, clarity or sequence. His films, in more ways than one, cut loose...
...long walk down to Dunster House, and a pair of tickets to their version of Beyond the Fringe costs three dollars. Two bucks more gets you the original-cast album and a six-pack of Budweiser...