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This production of The Country Girl is a first-class revival that is likely to attract rapt audiences. If that happens, it will not prove that in 20 years Odets has grown in stature, but only that people tend to remain, somewhat endearingly, the same. Jason Robards is the alcoholic ex-matinee idol trying to make a comeback, Maureen Stapleton is the wife to whom he clings, and George Grizzard is the young director with a shark-toothed hunger for fame...
...beat them to it by playing the brilliant Symphonies of Wind Instruments, composed in 1920. Stravinsky employs masses of sound from the brasses (much the way Janacek does in the Sinfonietta) set against tight harmonies in the woodwinds. The result is a kind of Debussy with metallic colors. The rapt attention of the inactive string players on stage was ample testimony to the rendition...
...wage-price freeze is only a prologue to a drama that so far has the sketchiest of script outlines. Like an exceptionally thunderous overture, Phase I has startled an audience of some 200 million citizens into rapt attention, and set the mood for the performance to follow. Has it been the beginning of a Nixonian New Prosperity? Or of a rerun of the national tragedy of inflation and unemployment? That will depend on the program that the White House shapes for Phase II, which follows the end of the freeze...
...tattoo in which marchlike rhythms blend effortlessly with geometric splashes of sound. It was hardly a hit with the audience, though. "That doesn't matter," says Boudreau. "As long as they're sitting there, they're absorbing it, getting used to the sound of today." The rapt attention now given "favorites" by Penderecki and Badings seems proof enough of that...
Alexis Smith is the living, dancing refutation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's axiom that there are no second acts in American lives. At 49 she is in the best second act of her life. Her blue-green eyes catch the light and the audience's rapt attention; her body seems beyond the aspiration of girls half her age. She is simultaneously a source of awe, envy and consolation. Middle-aged men see her as carnality enshrined: the girl who stayed as young in life as in memory. Their wives think, if she can do it, I can do it. Just...