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Aesop offers perhaps the best comment-and the best put-down of the narrow-gauge expert. Once, he relates, a group of mice held a council to determine what they should do about a voracious cat. Finally one young mouse came up with a proposal to put a bell around...
It was this sense, perhaps, that gave us the security to engage and explore and different styles of music and of life, black music for example. They showed us a style of engagement that would preserve our sense of self, that wasn't slavish imitation, that neutralized our fear of...
Barbara Ferris manages her ultimate put-down with a nice poignancy, and Werner plays the self-indulgent artist with the insouciance of a Habsburg bastard. Virginia Maskell, who died last January, is exceptionally beautiful and understated in the thankless role of the wife who is called upon to ask her...
THE BOYS IN THE BAND. Mart Crowley s comedy makes no apologia for the homosexual society, but uses it as a frame within which to hang the skeins of diverse lives, while unraveling some of the knots in which human beings tie themselves. Leonard Frey, Kenneth Nelson and Cliff Gorman...
Hovering between and beyond these styles are the Hung-Up, Freaked-Out and Put-Down. Ann Halprin, 47, wife of San Francisco Architect Lawrence Halprin, is a Hung-Up who likes to hang up her dance-workshop students on a cargo net and, shifting their positions in the webbing, stage...