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...film, is arbitrary. Wagner's opera is merely a pretext for the director, a frame on which to hang a murky, convoluted and, finally, not very original cultural thesis. The performance is led with surprising authority and eloquence by the little-known Swiss conductor Armin Jordan and features splendid singing by Tenor Reiner Goldberg as Parsifal and Mezzo Yvonne Minton as Kundry...
Tootsie. A screwball comedy for our times, with Dustin Hoffman splendid as an actor who dons a dress to win a role and becomes a better man as a result. The supporting cast is extraordinary, the writing and direction on pitch...
Until recently, California's burgeoning service sector and smaller-than-average manufacturing sector helped buffer the state from trouble. But the national recession eventually eroded California's splendid near isolation from the economic woes of the country at large. Signs of economic pressure are now evident across the state's diversified industrial base. By next June General Motors and Ford will have closed four out of five automobile assembly plants in the span of three years. The once booming housing industry is expected to finish the year with only 60,000 housing starts, down from...
...speaker is Robert Louis Stevenson; the story is Kidnapped (Scribners; $17.95). As young David Balfour seeks his rightful inheritance in the Scottish Highlands, his adventures indeed assume a sudden verve. Like last year's Treasure Island, this reprint is an ideal restoration. Most of the rare and splendid illustrations by N.C. Wyeth are not copies from the first edition; they have been brilliantly reproduced from the original paintings...
...audience out whistling their moral codes, but Lee Kalcheim is an amiable writer with a gift for constructing tight comic spots for Taylor and Charles to battle in and out of. The actress makes a tough lady sympathetic; the actor is a canny counterpuncher. Together they reinvent that splendid theatrical institution, the unhappy marriage, that no playwright looking for laughs should ever put asunder...