Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Parlor Talk. The Juilliard is now 17 years old, and its reputation is safely established. Only the aging and conservative Budapest String Quartet approaches Juilliard's mastery of the quartet repertory, but in modern music Juilliard's technique and understanding are unique. The nature of the string quartet inevitably suggests a conversation, and the Juilliard players have an agility and intelligence that pitch and color the tone of each voice to enrich the spirit of the composer. Their Mozart is 18th century parlor talk, Beethoven can sound like stentorian and political argument, Bartok and Schoenberg are full...
...climax of this primitive business is a custard-pie war in a beatnik beer and poetry parlor. Pie-facing, like pratfalling, seems to be a lost art nowadays, and Avalon desecrates the memory of Deadpan Harry Langdon: he stands there and actually squinches up his eyes before the strawberry cream splatters all over his pretty face. Nonetheless, Annette goes ape for Frankie, crooning "I was such a fool/ To treat him so crool...
...Garden of Allah-in case you'd like to do a bit of planting"). Then he runs off the stage and up to his flat, where he makes a few fast phone calls and moves a shipment of bootleg bellywash. Then he runs back to the skin parlor for the second show ("This old slag takes care of her health-if she's not in bed by eleven, she goes home"). Then he runs down the street to a jobber he knows and sells him a sack of smuggled watches. Then he runs back to the dirty...
...bottle, slugs a stooge, and generally behaves as though a man's-capacity could be measured in whisky and his importance by his punch. But when a woman appears, Big John looks suddenly small and surrounded by unimaginable terrors, like a Boy Scout trapped in a beauty parlor...
Sandee Shafrin will give instruction in dance composition and dance technique on Tuesday evenings beginning tomorrow through August 6. The first meeting is in Parlor B on the second floor of the Union...