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...over, seemingly weeks later, with headaches all around. Today, though the ingredients remain standard (there will never be anything to replace creamed chicken or ice cream for hurling across the table or sloshing onto the floor), the service has changed. Catering has moved down from the specific realm of the high-tea, highball set to a level no higher than knee, and Mother is gratefully relinquishing her place to the Party Coordinator, whose package deal, along with ordinary old balloons and the rest, most often includes a couple of puppets, a clown, sometimes even a pony...
...even an old concert-favorite like Scarlatti's Le Violette pleases us anew when clothed in such velvety beauty of sound as the Spanish soprano produced last Wednesday. Still more noteworthy--because less expected--was the increased command which de los Angeles seems recently to have developed over the realm of German lieder. Her exuberant performance of Schubert's Mein! made me forget for a moment that the songs from Die Schone Mullerin and hardly suited to a woman's voice and manner. Der Tod und das Madchen, on the other hand, conveyed such a deep sense of both...
...usually votes for New Frontier bills on the floor of the House. But last year he refused to support the Administration's medicare bill, and he is considerably less casual about budget deficits than the Administration is. As a power in the middle, Mills can, within his realm of jurisdiction, tilt the House one way or the other. As Mills goes, so is his committee likely to go, and as Ways and Means goes, so, as a rule, goes the House...
...Beautiful Bait is the superior play and seems like a foray into the enchanted realm of a child's dream. It is acted by wondrously well-trained youngsters, none older than 17. The plot: a wicked prime minister, Tung Cho, tries to overthrow a royal dynasty. A loyal statesman dangles a beautiful girl (Wang Fu-jung) as bait before Tung Cho and his general...
...Horse's Mouth has the soul of an artist, and is endlessly fascinating, Jimson the shambling, vital Bohemian is Guinness's triumph, aand what a pity it is that he has never found or been given another vehicle like this one: for here, surely, in the emotionally intricate realm of sentimental, subtle farce Guinness is at his very best. His Jimson is much funnier than his man in a suit, much more believable than his cardinal...