Word: prowesses
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Legends of Negro sexual prowess aside, there are other drives as well. Some white girls see mixed dating as their way to break down barriers and help the Negro "overcome." Some are simply rebelling. "If a white girl wants to do her parents in," explains Dr. Lewis Yablonsky, head of the sociology department at San Fernando Valley State College, "the classic pattern is to go out with someone black...
Author Portis always streaks his Grand Guignol gore with the humor that is implicit in Mattie's character and situation, although sometimes he is guilty of playing it a bit too quaintsy. Mattie's prowess as a horse trader, for example, is overdrawn to the point where character rides off into caricature toward a last stand at the credibility gap. And he finds it necessary to pad his dangerously thin tale with an overlong excursion into Rooster's gun-cocking past...
...major asset: Bernstein had persuaded Mezzo Christa Ludwig to abandon her accustomed role as the youth Octavian for the lead role of the aging Marschallin, usually sung by a soprano. Ludwig's vocal prowess, womanly softness and pathos proved her a perfect choice. Said Bernstein: "She was so marvelous in the last scene that I cried watching her." And that was no Viennese exaggeration...
...that he was too much the poet, too much the pointillistic stylist, too self-concerned with scenes, images and feelings sensed in a severely limited autobiographical world. He was justly acccused of hiding behind his family and childhood, of not daring the larger, extra-domestic themes that his technical prowess promised, or conversely, of trying to inflate his tiny genre scenes into balloons of cosmic significance. Updike, wrote Critic John Aldridge, "has nothing to say," while Leslie Fiedler complains, "He writes essentially 19th century novels. He's irrelevant...
PLAZA SUITE. If hotel walls had ears-and Neil Simon's comic prowess-they might tell tales as mirth-provoking as these three one-act plays. Directed by Mike Nichols, Suite manages to exercise the funny bone while keeping a sympathetic finger on the human pulse...