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...collections in Paris were the purest couture I've seen in years," notes Ohrbach's Sydney Gittler. "The workmanship is so perfect that I'll have difficulty having it done in the U.S." Still smarting from their unhappy attempts to meld high fashion with ready-to-wear, designers seemed completely unbothered by the prospect of greater exclusivity. "We have models here with thick necks or broad hips or short legs," says Esparza. "I hide these faults with my clothes. That is couture, and that is why ready-to-wear can never take its place...
Beyond the archdemonic Hitlers, Updike points out, are the evils that persist in Everyman: "Is not destructiveness within us as a positive lust, an active hatred? Who does not exult in fires, collapses, the ruin and death of friends? What man can exempt from his purest sexual passion and most chivalrous love, the itch to defile...
...ALBUM'S TRIUMPH is "Something So Right," which may be Simon's purest love song. Everything about the song is right. The acoustic intro mourns and whines, the rest of the band tumbles beautifully into the middle of the chorus, there is an interaction between acoustic and electric bass subtle enough to be missed. The electric piano vibrates while the acoustic piano skips lightly on the last chorus and ascends over the final progression, giving way to two short flute phrases belying the final fade. The lyrics are sensitive, personal, self-deprecating. Easily Simon's most beautiful effort...
...Changing Room is Storey's most powerful and moving drama, it is because he has found in sport his purest metaphor for the war of existence. The characters are a semi-pro English north country rugby team. Six days of the week, they are peaceable, nondescript employees somewhere. On the seventh day, they gird up their loins for gory combat. The changing room is where they come and go from their catchpenny Armageddon. In Act I, the men perform their initiation rites, strip down, loosen muscles, get into their uniforms. In Act II, they come off the field...
...scene is the highest degree of athletics. It is a skill, and a highly-refined one. There is more that goes into good Boogie than goes into a wishbone option. And as anyone that has lived through an all-night oldies trip can attest, it's physicality in its purest form. A night at Charley's Place or any such beer-room dive supplying The Golden Sound, will show that it's more workout than a two-hour trip...