Word: somberness
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...held back mention of the astounding set of 'Tis Pity to the customary tag-end position such matters usually receive in reviews, though this set, designed by a talent named Franco Colavecchio who also did the costumes, is superb in every respect. Its somber facade, constructed from grayish lumber, in three tiers of Italianate colonnades, is appropriately weighty in appearance. A quick turn of some stage machinery turns left-stage quickly into Arabella's bedchamber (be careful to watch the metamorphosis in her pillow as her sin and the play's action deepen: first it picks up a red ribbon...
...whetting his skills and adopting names and accents to suit geography, he evolves into part of American folklore. As Dick Gibson, the paradox of his truest identity is that he is from Nowhere, U.S.A. "Regionless my placeless vowels, my sourceless consonants," Gibson ululates into the silence and emptiness-the somber and pervasive background of life that is Elkin's real concern. Like Scheherazade, Gibson holds fate off with talk, "life-giving and meaningless and sweet as appetite...
...long since passed from their lives as well as our own. The world of the dead Follies and the reality of the present intermingle constantly in Sondheim's work. No sooner does a performer do her old soft shoe than the tin-pan-alley trumpet fades into a somber and often dissonant piece of music Sondheim has written to capture the mood of disintegration that hangs over the ongoing celebration...
...Somber Count...
Nixon has changed his tailoring too, and just as subtly. Anthony T. Rossi, sales manager of the President's favorite tailoring firm, H. Freeman & Son of Philadelphia, has persuaded the President to wear his somber blue and gray corporate suits with a slightly (⅝ in.) wider lapel. Before his European trip last fall, the President bought four new suits (average price: $275). Nixon was even gently talked into a couple of reticently modish double-breasted suits, the first he has worn since his congressional days. "He's a person who doesn't like to be told what...