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Updike speaks of 'Rabbit' Angstrom in a detached way: Rabbit was "happy working in Mrs. Smith's garden." He "pined after an animal existence." Updike wouldn't be, and doesn't. The dust jacket photo for A Month of Sundays shows him in a pin-stripe suit and shiny black shoes, flashing a tolerant half-smile at his walking companion, who has been cut from the picture. He holds two crisp autographed copies of his latest book under his left elbow, while his left hand absently attends to an itch on his right pinky...
...picture of Rabbit Angstrom, and it is not really a picture of the Reverend Thomas Marshfield, the hero of this new book. But Marshfield has more of John Updike in him--the Updike who doesn't long for an animal existence and doesn't mind living in New York City--than the mute heroes of half a dozen of his previous novels...
...Cambridge's better restaurants isn't available every day of the week, but Chinese New Year--Saturday, Feb. 8--seems as good a time as any. The Su-Shlang, among the top one or two Chinese restaurants in the area, is celebrating the arrival of the Year of the Rabbit with an afternoon of free Chinese pastry, including panfried dumplings, spicy noodles, chopped-meat buns and fried crullers. About 1,500 people are expected to pack the moderately-sized, home-decorated restaurant on the corner of Prospect Street and Broadway (about a 15 minute walk from Gund Hall on Broadway...
...qualifies as an expert: actors. Sonny, 54, broke into Broadway as the understudy for Sidney Castleman (né Schlossberg), a much bellied matinee idol 20 years his senior. Now the worm has turned. Castleman is on the skids, sponging off Sonny while sneering at him as a "mechanical rabbit," a thespian technocrat devoid of true passion. To top it all, Castleman involves Sonny in a gang war between black hoodlums and a Polish mobster. But Sonny simply loves the old gaffer all the more...
...THIS IS one rabbit that never gets pulled out of the hat. Bernstein derails himself right at the start with his gross misuse of syntactic terminology. When he applies such transformations as "conjoining," "transposition," "embedding," and even "deletion," to music, he does so without regard to their linguistic meaning. The musical transformations share only the names with their counterparts in language...