Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...game instead of five, Thomas Stefanian, owner of Tommy's Lunch, replies: "Let me tell you something. These guys, some of them, with their feet up when they sit there, and using all these napkins for a raspberry lime rickey, who come in the door all the time wanting stuff they can't get at no other place because I've been in business here longer than any of 'em. But seriously...
...could wish for a little more narrative drive in the proceedings, a little more invention and tension. Still, Wilder's film would probably be a worthwhile addition to the CIA's indoctrination program-reminding recruits that espionage is essentially the stuff of childish fantasy, therefore dangerous for grown men to take too seriously. As for the rest of us, the movie is probably the fastest escape from the holiday blahs that Hollywood is offering this season...
Jean Smith ingeniously returned the program to the theme of Christmas with a commentary on "what wise guys call kids' stuff." She suggested that it might be better to search for the light of God in the heavens, as "three wise guys" once did, than to trust narrowly in science, which gives people a reason to "fear the bursting of bombs." A unique arrangement of "We Three Kings," by Eric McKissach, a choir member from MIT, set the altos in counterpoint to the sopranos and the basses in contrast to the tenors. Five men stepped out of the group into...
Eliahu Inbal, conductor; Philips; $7.98). The music of Tchaikovsky can hardly be said to have suffered over the years from underexposure. Yet here are four tone poems that most Tchaikovsky buffs will not know. The Storm is windy stuff at best and deserves its obscurity. But Fatum (Fate) and The Voyevode have an orchestral touch and programmatic flair that approach the popular 1812 Overture and Capriccio Italien. And The Tempest, written four years after Romeo and Juliet, is one of the composer's grandest scores. Conductor Inbal, an Israeli now in his second year as head of the Frankfurt...
...revivals are not only a play's test; they are a showcase for actors to strut their stuff. Sweet Bird has one terrific part: the frowsy monster of a princess...