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...masterpiece on this bill, an exquisitely orchestrated work full of both lyricism and humor, is L 'Enfant et les Sortilèges (literally The Child and the Sorceries). Colette wrote the libretto, a serenely wise fantasy about a child's guilt after a temper tantrum. When L'Enfant was first produced in 1925, George Balanchine, then 21, provided the incidental choreography. But noble lineage does not burden this opera in the way that it does Satie's Parade, probably because it offers ample possibilities for different interpretations. The little boy (played by Mezzo-Soprano Hilda Harris...
...corncob pipe, ruddy complexion, and latex-enlarged forearms and calves. He also has the gravelly muttering voice and the "pronunskiation" down, and his singing and dancing pass muster. What seems curiously lacking is evidence of Williams' brilliant gift for improvisation. Glimmers shine through occasionally, as when Popeye throws a tantrum because he doesn't want to eat his spinach. Williams, television's "Mork," also contributes a few one-liners, but Altman never turns him loose...
...middle section, which describes Roy's ascent, through madness, to the space traveler's wave length-his alienation. Instead of inching away from his baffled family into the cocoon of his tran scendence, Roy breaks with them in an abrasively strong scene, a kind of group tantrum. At the end, Roy enters the starship, and this time the audience goes with him-for a brief survey of the ship's angelic multiterraced interior. Roy grins beatifically; the wooden husband has turned into a real boy. Pinocchio lives...
...Borg's financial empire, has watched Borg play many times and is impressed above all with his good manners. "I've seen him angry only once," he said. "He turned and asked the umpire, 'Are you sure about that call?' For Borg, that is a tantrum." Ainslie interviewed many of Borg's tennis colleagues, including players, officials and promoters. "Fellow pros like John McEnroe, Stan Smith and Harold Solomon see one facet of Borg, but I got some surprising insights from talking to tennis umpires," says Ainslie. "Some of them have been in the business...
With unblinking candor, Martha Lear records every agony, every tantrum, every embarrassment experienced by a man whose body has begun the process of betrayal. No one is spared, least of all the author. She recalls her resentment of the illness that disables both her husband and her marriage: "I ache for him but I resent him as well, this sick, sunken man ... The intensity of the anger that hovers here, beneath what I take to be love, is frightening. I understand the wretched banality of such an anger as this . . . yet it shames and appalls...