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Clapton has digested so many musical influences that he's dulled his palate. Invesitably the result is bland, a sort of baby pea-and-ham mush of originally solid substance. It's hard to distinguish Clapton's puree from Brand X any more and his appealnow lies chiefly in the hints at the original taste of the musical base than today's too-well-blended pulp. Not any reason to cry--that's too strong a reaction...
ONCE UPON A MATTRESS was a vehicle for Carol Burnett, who used the leading role of Princess Winifred the Woebegone as a stepping stone to television immortality. The show is based on the fairy tale of the princess whose royal lineage is proven when a pea lying beneath 20 mattresses disturbs her sleep. The show's one-dimensional fairy tale plot exaggerates the frothy, cute tendencies inherent in most American musical comedies. With minimal character development and a score which also lacks distinction, the play depends on a showcase of individual talents rather than the merits of a coherent story...
...appealingly Klutzy and earthy Winifred does not carry the show. Mermes's best moment occurs in the second act, when she has the stage to herself as she attempts to fall asleep. She yawns and stretches and mugs her way to bed only to be foiled by the pea under her mattresses...
...earn money to attend Macalester College in St. Paul, Mondale worked as a pea-aphid inspector for the Green Giant company in the town of Blue Earth. It was at Macalester that Mondale first got involved with Hubert Humphrey and set his career on the course that was to carry him to the vice-presidential nomination...
Should she be troubled by a pea under her mattress-like the sensitive maiden in the fairy tale-Princess Anne of England, 25, will probably have to remove it herself, at least while she resides in the Olympic Village at Bromont, Quebec, 45 miles from Montreal. As one of the 21 members of Britain's equestrian team, Anne requested that she receive no special treatment, and she isn't getting any. She lives in a three-bedroom apartment with six other athletes, including her husband, Captain Mark Phillips, an alternate member of the team; she stands on line...