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SOUL SAUCE (Verve) features the brittle tracery of Cal Tjader's vibes and some Cuban percussion. Tjader plays in Latin dance halls, and his combo maintains a steady, inesthetic drive in pieces like Afro-Blue, Tanya and Joao...
While readying its list of female names for the upcoming hurricane season, Miami Weather Bureaucrats nominated Anna for the first storm, said that succeeding twisters would be called Betsy, Carla, Debbie, Esther, Frances, Gerda, Hattie, Inga, Jenny, Kara, Laurie, Martha, Netty, Orva, Peggy, Rhoda, Sadie, Tanya, Virgy and Wenda...
...stage twenty-five centuries ago but what they saw in the world and the cosmos as well. The masks of the actors bear a bizarre and wholly appropriate resemblance to the grotesque faces of the magnified reptiles and insects seen in the Brattle's introductory short subject. Tanya Moiseiwitsch has provided lighting, costumes, and a set too stark ever to suggest some transcendent tempering of the harsh natural order of things. And Yeats' translation of the chorus' last lines--"Call no man fortunate that is not dead./The dead are free from pain"--crystallizes the pessimistic fatalism and brooding sense...
...Tanya urged me to stay overnight. Without waiting for my consent she jumped up from the table, gave me an ardent kiss and began to undress. I turned out the lamp and also got undressed...
...lines; Eileen Herlie is suitably fluttery as a milliner; and Arthur Hill and Robert Morse are expertly naive as the two clerks. The settings are generous in number (four) but deficient in imagination--only in the last, a living room of riotiously poor taste, does designer Tanya Moiseiwitsch make the most of her opportunities...