Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that deep-sixes its protagonists by the halfway point is a sweatingly exuberant cast. Doing his annual turn as a blonde-coiffed mountain is the estimable Bob Peabody, whose delicate elephant walk and open-mouthed grin (in which a Sopwith Camel could do circus loops without destroying the bridgework) remind one of a cross between Everest and Margaret Dumont. He is a natural wonder and a natural comedian. Mark Szpak's slithering, thrilling Juana deBoise puts him in a class with Lupe Velez and Luis Tiant--all unintelligible delights. David Levi as Sonya Vabitsche looks like a very funny...
...historian sees it, such airborne misadventures have a social as well as personal function. They externalize a deep, ineradicable fantasy, and behind the vain, comic flap there flies - however briefly - a valuable purpose. Concludes Peter Haining: "The bird-man is, after all, always there to remind us of his intent ... he flies on as ever in our dreams, on our televisions and radios, and even through our day-to-day conversations. We should surely miss him deeply if he were not there." We should, like Dante, have to dream him all over again...
...musicals will be in abundance as much as adaptations this spring. A Little Night Music counts twice. Based on Smiles of a Summer Night, an almost forgotten Bergman movie, the musical by Stephen Sondheim was successful on Broadway a few years ago. Sondheim's slick sophisticated version won't remind anyone of Cries and Whispers or The Passion of Anna...
...extremely hard data that their field provides, the evolutionary considerations that I shall invoke may seem like mere hand-waving. But in this light nearly all of Darwin's arguments, based on inferences about the past and not on verifiable experiments, could be similarly dismissed. And I would remind you that Darwin's theory remains the most profound and unifying generalization in biology: it is enormously supported today by the evidence from DNA sequences for the genetic origin and the continuity of the observed variation, but it also involves ecological processes and populational kinetics that require a totally different...
...Rosalynn Carter's banning of liquor from the White House [Jan. 10]: someone should remind the Carters that the White House is not their house, but our house. If, for reasons of personal conviction, they want to ban liquor from the family quarters, that is no one's business but their own. To turn the rest of the White House into a dry zone, however, is no more proper than would be a Jewish President's banning of pork and shellfish from the White House menu. Daniel F. Goldman Baltimore