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Furthermore, several of Yale's most talented performers, including Bob Ufer and Greg Rivet, have not nearly approached their efforts of last year...
...sees it, writers are "liars" who continually try to hide the truth because it can drive men mad. So the reader is advised: "Let us all lie together, or surely we shall all lie alone." Fortunately, Fuentes is a natural-born "liar." and frequently skillful and imaginative enough to rivet the attention. Even his windy sales pitches from the existential soapbox are not without charm and vitality. It is as if Fuentes were more interested in the pitch than the sale. In fact, two phrases in the book's closing lines might well have appeared on page 1. They...
...certainly a thoroughly unsympathetic lot, and not one of them ever performs a generous act. They are animals, but first of all they are theatrical animals. They hold the stage like a military position. An actor long before he became a playwright, Pinter writes scenes with which actors can rivet an audience's attention. His stage animals circle and sniff and snarl and claw at each other, and the odor of vitality permeates the playhouse. These animals have been released from the cages of the poor; they are nasty and virulent over trifles, since the little they have...
...some hidden persuasion, some mythical unconscious influencer--it's sales," he says proudly. Olgivy isn't interested in campaigns which are merely entertaining, which win awards for their supposed aesthetic values. "A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself. It should rivet the reader's attention on the product...
BACH: CONCERTO IN D MINOR; CHOPIN: CONCERTO NO. 2 IN F MINOR (London). Vladimir Ashkenazy's technical brilliance is enough by itself to rivet the listener's attention, but it is only one factor in a superb performance. He moves across the glittering surface of the Chopin like moonlight on a windswept lake, and gives the popular Bach concerto an almost hearty treatment that displays to perfection the gaiety in its baroque adornments...