Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...something more-a Kurt Weill marvel. Not only were the famous Bilbao Song and Surabaya Johnny written for this musical, but also half a dozen other numbers of rare distinction. They range from Song of the Big Shot ("Just don't get soft, baby/ For god's sake never get soft, baby/ No ifs or buts/ Go on and kick him in the guts/ Go on and kick him in the guts. ") to Throw Out the Lifeline-Soul Overboard. By turns, the music is astringent, lyrical, opulently erotic and as jazzily smoky as a 1920s saxophone...
...bulldozing an original show through all the red tape and arbitrariness that clutters up the path to production. And unless authors and composers--who very often are not accepted "theater people" with ready made connections--are already wired in to one organization or another, the alternative for the sake of sanity has been in many cases to give up. Perhaps it is easier after all to put on a show in a depopulated university town in midsummer...
...your report entitled "The Hartford Heresies" [Feb. 10] tells the whole story, then current theology has apparently fallen back to its last line of defense, whose slogan might be: "For God's sake, at least be orthodox...
...ugly or delusive or frustrating or wasteful, or all four. That is why the Japan Society's current exhibition in New York, "Tsutsumu-the Art of Japanese Packaging," should not be missed. Organized and chosen by the Tokyo designer Hideyuki Oka, it consists of 221 packages, ranging from sake bottles to wrappings for candied papaya. All the designs have a long craft history, and some are very old indeed: one type of wooden container, tied together with strips of bark and used for carrying the raw fish on vinegared rice known as sushi, has been continuously made in Nara...
...sheathe it in straight wisps of straw and then bind it in straw rope like a corn husk, unwrap as much as you need, cut it off, close the inner layer of straw, retie the bundle. Such packaging uses humble materials with breathtaking panache: witness a bottle for sweet sake from Tokyo, coarse brown earthenware capped with a mottled sheet of bamboo bark and tied with creeper - an ordering of color and texture so fine as to annihilate (by comparison) any drink container now selling in the West, but doomed to extinction because it can only be made by hand...