Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TUNC, by Lawrence Durrell. A devilishly clever, metaphysical mystery tale about freedom and responsibility, by the author of the Alexandria Quartet...
...erotica past. Issue 3, out last week, contains a story by Norman Mailer, The Taming of Denise Gondelman, about the heroic efforts of a blond Aryan to bring an intellectual Jewish girl to her first orgasm. It was published in 1959 as The Time of Her Time. A tale by Roald Dahl of a wily Arab who lures eligible young men to his home to make love to his daughter, a leper, appeared in Playboy three years ago. For the avant-garde in politics, the magazine offered a profile of Richard Nixon. For the latest in poetry, the verse that...
...avoid with this play. His actors, apparently unaware of much of the script's more subtle humor, work against the lines with an indiscriminate cuteness. Two of the funniest sequences, the exchange of coincidences between a married couple not sure they are married and the fireman's ridiculous tale of "the Headcold," fall dead. In the latter case, the actor actually reads the speech, stifling the spontaneity that is the crux of the joke. Most of what does arouse the audience comes from the drooping mouth of W. Bruce Johnson, who looks like a young Walter Matthau and acts with...
...quality of the dancing shows best in "Jazz-Ballet, or a Tale of Two Styles." For this piece, quite literally a "Dance of the Elements," Miss Crouse portrays water to a very simple piano melody. Her movements, drawn mainly from classical ballet are exceedingly simple, she repeats them over and over. Mr. Kemper, as fire, uses the jazz idiom and, again, the choreography is almost childishly simple. Mr. Kemper and Miss Crouse have wisely avoided the temptation to demonstrate their ability with technically difficult movements. The success of the evening depends so entirely on the performers' ability to harmonize...
...second act consists of the Merchant's Tale (in which Wilfrid Bram-bell regularly stops the show with a prenuptial bossanova in a nightshirt), followed by the Wife of Bath's moral story of the overamorous Knight and the witch who turns into a beautiful young girl when she is convinced that he really loves...