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...play of the three. Few dramas exemplify with greater purity the classic concept of a beginning, a middle and an end, while adhering as well to the unities of time, place and action. To be sure, nothing much happens. In Act I, some workmen put up a spacious lawn tent for the wedding of their boss's daughter. In Act II, they decorate it for the bridal-reception party. In Act III, they clear away the debris of empty champagne bottles and strike the tent...
...superiors. In The Contractor, as in The Changing Room, Storey reveals himself as a celebrator of communal male effort. The task of playing a rugby game knits the men of The Changing Room together in pleasure and in pain. The task of putting up and taking down the tent in The Contractor is not a stage charade. It is real and intricate work, a team effort that requires the subordination of individual and abrasive personalities to the communal effort. That is why Storey's casts always look like veteran ensemble companies. They have to be to get the work...
...Baptist evangelist from Alabama, Sherrill grew up touring the South with his parents, playing piano at the "tent meetin's" and other functions where his father preached. He traces the beginning of his career as a professional musician to earning $10 for playing at a funeral at the age of ten. Although he had no formal musical training, by his teens he could play half a dozen instruments. After finishing high school, he took up the life of an itinerant rock musician, playing mostly piano and saxophone with bands in Tennessee and Alabama and sleeping...
Gloria Swanson sleeps with a miniature pyramid under her bed because, she says, it makes "every cell in my body tingle." James Coburn, after he meditates inside his pyramid tent, puts his cat and her kittens to bed over a nest of tiny pyramids, on the theory that the kittens may grow up in a unique way. A Houston doctor put microbes under a pyramid and found that they lived 64 hours longer than ones not in a pyramid...
...most versatile promoter seems to be Flanagan, 28, who was a child prodigy in electronics. He started a lively direct-mail business by offering items like the Pyramid Energy Generator, an aggregation of one-inch-high pyramids on a metal base. His Cheops Pyramid Tent, made of opaque vinyl, sells for $25 and is said to be a good environment for transcendental meditation, biofeedback and yoga, in that it surrounds its inhabitants with energy. Though Flanagan sleeps in his tent to improve his own sexual sensations, he does not advertise it as a sex stimulant. "The most immediate...