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...cried," said one theatregoer on her way out the door. I must have played the tape a million times and I still cried at the end. "This is another tradition, Even after seeing Fiddler a million times. You have to get a sort of quivery feeling in the pit of your stomach everytime the family loads its belonging into Tevye's milk cart and leaves Anatevka forever. And after such a time production the tears well up fairly early for the poignant leave taking scene...
...lost one so far this year. His Generals, says Trump, have "now become the No. 1 story in the whole of sports." Hyperbole like that is part of the Trump style. He is dreaming of the ultimate contest, a "Galaxy Bowl," mightier than the Super Bowl, that would pit the top N.F.L. team against the best U.S.F.L...
Those wandering by worrying about hourlies, papers, theses, departmental budgets, or whether or not to give six months disciplinary probation can take some satisfaction in the fact that the people in the pit actually look like they're accomplishing something--whether destroying someone else's achievement or creating one of their own. There is simply a certain joy in regarding concrete activity; welders crouched over their work and casting a blue glow from the arcs of their rods; electrician laying out conduit in angular symmetry; and all of them anticipating the deliveries of the cement mixers queued up on Mass...
When melodrama did surface at the festival, it could seem as out of place as a punk in an Amish Sunday school. John Patrick Shanley's Danny and the Deep Blue Sea sets a couple of urban pit dogs-a Bronx hoodlum (John Turturro) and a vagrant young mother (June Stein)-at each other's throats with coarsely romantic results, but the conclusion is too optimistic to be quite convincing. The Undoing, by William Mastrosimone, offers promise of a fascinating character: a woman (Debra Monk), now running her late husband's poultry business, whose rage...
Memphis clients prefer more luxurious locales. Trend-and jet-setters always crowd Memphis openings in Europe and the U.S.; Couturier Karl Lagerfeld has completely done his Riviera apartment with Memphis, including a silk-cushioned, wooden-roped conversation pit by Japanese Masanori Umeda, in the shape of a boxing ring. The style is catching on with professional decorators as well. In Houston, a beauty salon and a cocktail lounge are currently being furnished exclusively with Memphis. The largest single professional group who buy the disturbing style, reports Lorry Parks, a partner in Dallas and Houston's Grace Designs, are affluent...