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Applause is a musical, I believe. Apparently everyone besides me who claims the remotest interest in theater already knows everything else about it, too, but at the moment I can't find anyone who fits this description. Even The Crimson's usually omnicompetent Arts Editor professes to know only that Lauren Bacall once appeared in it and that it was one of the few questions he couldn't answer when he appeared on "It's Academic" (of course, you have to take into account that that was in Chicago). At Leverett House...
...show has gone wrong with this musical. The score sticks in your ear like wax. The lyrics consist of ditties that a fifth-grader would not dare to pass in to his English teacher. The star (Kay Ballard) spins through her numbers like a treadless tank. She lacks the remotest trace of that sweetly enveloping maternal musk with which Gertrude Berg so winningly invested her creation, Molly Goldberg, in the vastly popular radio and TV serials spanning the years 1929-1954. Alan Arkin has directed the show the way a bartender jiggles a martini shaker, apparently hoping that agitation will...
...grown into a yearning for shaggy acres and a pileated woodpecker of one's own. People may even be having hallucinations about the wilds. In his latest collection of essays, Edward Hoagland, a Harvard graduate who has spent a lot of time in some of the remotest, greenest places in North America, writes that men still claim to have sightings of the mountain lion, or puma, a species just this side of extinction. Hoagland thinks he saw one in the Alberta Rockies. Whether he did or not, the truth is that the puma is still something...
...distaff side, Sharon Laughlin as Brutus's wife Portia is not wholly at case in her lines. Ruby Holbrook, as Caesar's wife Calpurnia, speaks better but hasn't the remotest idea of how to react when her husband decides to go to the Senate after all on the Ides of March...
...book is really a series of leave-takings - from Rice, student friends and Texas, later from his wife, and his mistress and California. Its best sequence concerns Danny's compulsive trip back to the remotest personal past...