Word: teasers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Isherwood stints. Patrick is fully as alive as Sally Bowles, the heroine of Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin, and could support a longer novel. But Patrick is too briefly met. For the reader taken with the charming villain, A Meeting by the River is only a teaser...
...glittering audience in formal dress, with a scattering of flowered sports shirts, slacks and sandals. Colin Davis, the brilliant 39-year-old British conductor, led off the all-British program with a rousing performance of Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, a kind of teaser course for the uninitiated, moved on to headier stuff by Vaughan Williams, Frederick Delius and William Walton. The orchestra more than lived up to its reputation as one of the world's finest ensembles. Bolstered by such first-rank performers as Composer-Conductor Aaron Copland, Cellist Janos Starker, Violinist...
...their recent releases, Norwegian Wood, has been interpreted by some as the tale of a man trying to seduce a lesbian. Another, Day Tripper, can be interpreted as the lament of a man who finds out that his girl is a prostitute ("She's a big teaser . . . she only played one-night stands"). If that doesn't shake up the Beatles' fans, then the cover of their latest album would. It is a photograph of the famous four wearing butchers' smocks and laden with chunks of raw meat and the bodies of decapitated dolls. The first...
...routine scarcely varies from crooner to crooner. After the bouncy, wake-up opening number and the tender love ballad, he takes his portable microphone on a teaser tour of the stageside tables, establishing the all-important "eye contact" with the ladies. Highlight of the mingle-with-the-matrons sequence is when he takes the hand of a giggling patron, drops to one knee and breathes Come to Me, Bend to Me, always climaxed by a buss on the cheek. This gives way to cozy time, in which the crooner mounts a stool to sing a round of songs categorized either...
THEATER On Broadway TINY ALICE. Everyone's afraid of Alice in Edward Albee's brain teaser, though no one seems to know who she is. John Gielgud and Irene Worth are excellent in the respective roles of a lay brother and the world's richest woman...