Word: stylish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more interesting Alex in Wonderland) on the folkways of contemporary romance, where an innocent conversation can turn abruptly into a sexual scrimmage, and a tryst into trench warfare. He excels at putting down the trappings and pretensions of the middle-class life of Los Angeles with tart asides on stylish psychiatrists discussing the notion of "sport screwing," teen-age swingers, and hip health-food restaurants where satanic waiters recite the menu like an incantation. Yet he can be tender, too, and his characters are never merely clowns or pawns of plot. With a deft and cunning irony, he can point...
While the lines are amusing, the story is sometimes becalmed - but never for very long. Paced by Gene Feist's animatedly stylish direction, the Round about Theater Company makes this revival a comic refreshment...
...such moments that the story of their romantic complications (resolved only after everyone has said a lot of terribly clever things) sows its comic seeds and reaps its harvest of laughter. The production succeeds because its cast and crew passionately commit themselves to being passionlessly and uncommittedly stylish...
...delectable in both her appearance and her acting. Kohler's lines seem to roll effortlessly off her tongue with the haughty tone in which they were written to be delivered. Her counterpart, Algernon's Cecily, with whom she shares the funniest scene in the comedy, is not as stylish; Anne Ames, in her carriage and visage, mistakes movement for animation. Stephen Zinsser and Dennis Clearly, the two lovers, are both adequate to their tasks. They are languidly effete, though Zinsser is perhaps too effeminately so. And both appear to be enjoying themselves thoroughly. Sweeping onto the stage like a cold...
...Conducts Elgar's Symphony No. 2 in E-Flat, Opus 63 (London Phil harmonic Orchestra, Columbia; $5.98). Wildly famous in his day, the stately, sunlit tonal landscapes of Sir Edward Elgar withered before the 20th century's neoclassic revolt. Elgar died nearly forgotten in 1934. In this stylish reading of the E-flat symphony Daniel Barenboim takes a fresh look at the elegant Edwardian, holding a course of gentle restraint against an exuberance of leaping octaves and rolling timpani. Barenboim reclaims the Elgar grandeur without losing any of the buoyancy that captivated 19th century audiences...