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Everything about The King Stag is enchanting. The Forest of Miracoli, where Deramo goes hunting with Tartaglia, is filled with parrots whose gorgeous plummage creates a fluttering rainbow swirling in the air. Clever back-lighting on a pale skrim projects a prancing menagerie of lions and tigers and bears. A poor of light, lit from below the stage, suggests a woodland stream around which the overhead-lighting throws a sun-dappled forest floor. The fragile nobility of the two stags, with their breathtakingly lovely coats of the palest pastel, steal the forest show...

Author: By --john P. Wouck, | Title: Fantasy in Serendippo | 12/4/1984 | See Source »

...saddens me to write of Gigi thus. The show, she was my first musical love. But though this year the label remains the same, the bottle in which this Parisian tale sings out, belies a performance a pale cousin of its once spectacular self. Gigis past was like sipping fine champagne into dreamy glee, but this Gigi seems somehow like a hangover: I know it should have been fun, but now it all seems too foggy; only this time I really don't think I want to remember...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Gigi Redux | 12/4/1984 | See Source »

There is nothing pastel or pale about Gloria Allred. From her jet-black hair to her brilliant red lipstick to her usual attire of electric purple or Chinese-red dresses, she is as brightly colored as her name suggests. But there is a lot more to this Los Angeles attorney than vivid packaging. By adroitly combining showy tactics and solid scholarship, Allred over the past ten years has become one of the nation's most effective advocates of family rights and feminist causes. Declares Allred: "The law should be a sword and shield against the wrongs that women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Color Gloria Allred All Rebel | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...effective in the role of Simonne Evrard, the head of Charenton, who tries to neal her patients through participation in art. At the same time, she is the censor of the play, who interrupts subversive talk and menacingly reminds the crazies that "everything is being done to alleviate sufferings." Pale and stone-faced, she makes the audience's blood run cold...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: One Big Batty Family | 11/15/1984 | See Source »

...Ride a Pale Horse, MacInnes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Best Sellers: Nov. 12, 1984 | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

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