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...bungles the famous, pathetic scene in which the monster, hugging the little girl who accepted him as a friend, innocently crushes her to death. In this version the adorable child and the monster are throwing petals into a well; the cherub looks up too sweetly and asks, "What sall we twow in next?" Thud. Obvious lines fed from one character to another abound, and Brooks often repeats his favorite gags, good or bad, with little regard for the audience's tolerance. You can see a joke coming from around the bend...

Author: By Kathy Holub, | Title: Mel Brooks's Graveyard Smash | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

...missed; the source being, of course, Rock and Roll Animal, a highly polished effort of tunes (both from the days of the Velvets to the present) recorded at New York's Academy of Music. Taking into account the inclusion of songs from his latest release, Sall Can't Dance, into his repretoire, Rock and Roll Animal should be pretty indicative of Reed's performance this Friday, especially if the same entourage of musicians are present. In any case, be there if only to catch a glimpse of the Prince of Darkness' recently bleached hair. At the Orpheum theater, October...

Author: By John Porter, | Title: Rock and Folk | 10/3/1974 | See Source »

...bland report by the judicial tribunal that has spent three months investigating the latest British spy scandal: the strange case of William John Vassall, a homosexual Admiralty clerk who had been assigned to the Moscow embassy for two years, and had been spying for the Russians for seven. Vas-sall's superiors, and all but one of the officers who picked him out of 40 applicants for the Moscow assignment, were exonerated by the tribunal, which judged him "weak" but not overtly queer. However, admitted the report, Vassall's young colleagues in the embassy ridiculed his "effeminate" ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Sin Along with Sig | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

...Mastodons will start Tom Cavanaugh at goal, Ames Stevens at left defense, and Clark Cowen at right defense. The fast-skating first line has Paul Bird-sall at center and wingmen Pete Reiner and Myles Herter. Eliot also boasts a high-scoring second line of Demetrius Anderson and wings Bob Baldwin and Bill Bridges, who have worked very effectively together all season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Six Faces Davenport in New Haven Today | 3/25/1950 | See Source »

Little Rats. The world's oldest ballet company had come a long way from the days of Voltaire's Camargo, who was the first dancer to shorten her skirts, and Marie Sallé, who, in 1734, shocked a London correspondent into reporting that "she has dared to appear . . . without pannier, skirt or bodice . . . Apart from her corset and petticoat, she wore only a simple dress of muslin draped about her in the manner of a Greek statue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Great Tradition | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

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