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Last week, exactly 30 years after Rudi Vrba made his escape, I spoke to him at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he is a visiting lecturer in the Department of Radiology. Vrba does not look like a man who spent two years in Auschwitz. His face is cheerful, almost radiant, his hair is still dark, and he looks even younger than his 49 years. He speaks about his experiences in a calm, matter-of-fact voice, but an underlying tone of deep bitterness is easily detectable...
Voltaire's tale of innocence and catastrophe prances through the theater as if it were the wide, exuberantly evil world itself. Mark Baker's puppylike Candide and his beloved Cunegonde (Maureen Brennan) begin in the radiant sweetness of their Westphalia, instructed of course in Dr. Pangloss's invincible doctrine that this is the best of all possible worlds. What follows in Voltaire's gleeful vision is a string of unmitigated but somehow good-natured disasters-banishment, war, scourging, mass slaughter, piracy, the Spanish Inquisition, slavery, concubinage-until at last the wanderers come to El Dorado. Leading...
Scattered liberally throughout the palatial pad are some $200,000 worth of marble columns, doorways and stairs, and an ample supply of golden bathroom fixtures. Beneath the veneer of Old World elegance, the house has the very latest in electronic gadgetry: radiant wires heat up at the mere touch of a toe on a bathroom floor; an intercom system connects every room...
...appearing as an actor, often comes onscreen to provide musical comment and counterpoint. "So smile while you're making it./ Laugh while you're taking it./ Even though you're faking it,/ Nobody's gonna know," Price sings at one point, as Mick, with his radiant smile and infinite belief in his own good fortune, tries to charm and brazen his way to the top. He is outwitted and undone at every turn, tortured in an atomic plant, made the scapegoat in an elaborately criminal international cartel...
...they're still good. But God, is she sterile. I happened to be in front of the Music Hall a year and a half or so ago when she played Boston last; I'd just seen Elton John and her audience made John's look like the Angels: radiant blondes, whose age gravitated between 18 and 24 or so, men in seersucker pants (it was spring), and madras. It was also the only concert I'd ever seen end before 9:30. Anyway, Carole, whose version of "Natural Woman" was two-thirds of Aretha's, which...