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...contest in Philadelphia is a study in contrasts: burly ex-Supercop Rizzo against Republican Thacher Longstreth-tall and slender, with Chestnut Hill-Princeton looks and background. Longstreth, a former executive vice president of the city's Chamber of Commerce and an unsuccessful mayoral candidate 16 years ago, was appointed by local G.O.P. Boss William Meehan. Rizzo, who rose through the ranks of the police department, won his party's nomination in a bruising primary battle (TIME, May 31), in which his main pitch was that, as police commissioner, he kept the "radicals" in check, and that he would...
...personified by a slender tenor named Jeff Fenholt, 21, the Christ of Superstar bears a startling resemblance to those portraits of the pale Galilean that used to be hung in children's bedrooms all over the country?a vision that has helped turn so many of the hip young off contemporary religion. Hawaii-born Yvonne Elliman, 19, has just the right combination of sweet, gentle good looks and crooning pop ballad style to suggest that Magdalene is really two Marys rolled into one. As Judas, Ben Vereen, 24, has one of the more physically demanding roles in the history...
Lloyd Webber, dark, slender and intense, likes to point out defensively that this is his first opera?a defense that only someone who knows Verdi's first opus can fully appreciate. Rice, tall and blond, finds inspiration in the rhyming dictionary, talks like a character out of a book by his favorite novelist, P.G. Wodehouse, and looks like somebody's kid brother home for the long hols. If fame and fortune have not yet disturbed them, it may be because so much of it has come in the U.S. "The LP record is an absolute dud in England," Rice explains...
...much of the bitterness her suicide read into it, and allows the poetry an inkling of self-love in all the self-hatred. It means that it is no longer possible not to read her anymore, especially her last and most fleshless skeletons, now that there is the slender reed of her self-love to sustain the reader. Her last poems. "Daddy," "Edge," and "Words," are her best. English publishers found them so unbearably confessional that for a long time these last poems found no outlet. She did not intend these to be swansongs, but new flexings, higher bets...
...Proust is a critic's industry. "More has been written about Proust in many languages than about any other author of the 20th century," Proustian Scholar Roger Shattuck claimed a few years ago, counting over 3,000 items in bibliography. To which now can be added this slender volume of eleven essays of French, English and American Proustians collected by English Biographer and Critic Peter Quennell. The book is splendidly illustrated with a variety of period images ranging from lady bicyclists to Sarah Bernhardt reclining amid pillows, fringes and a polar bear...