Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doubt you've got the requisite subscription to the New Yorker. It's encouraging to see a student, George Colt '76, on the last day's list of speakers, and I guess Rita Mae Brown, who's associated with a kind of lesbian consciousness, its into the subterranean theme...
Finale. Black CAST presents a coffee house with vignettes from past productions (My Sister, My Sister, The Blacks, and Theme for Linda), poetry, jazz and song. Refreshments. I'm not really sure why this goes in the theater listings, but it seems to me as good a place for it as any. The CAST productions have all been good, and I don't see why this shouldn't be. In the Lowell House dining room, May 8 at 8:30 p.m. $1.50 admission...
...MOMENTUM GAINED in the Prokofiev swept the orchestra through a rousing performance of Brahm's Variations on a Theme by Haydn--the first example in musical literature of orchestral variations written as an independent work. Stulberg ably held the work together, preventing the variations from fragmenting into eight separate pieces. By skillfully distributing the climaxes, he molded the variations into one symphonic statement. The sections of the orchestra played with a delicate balance, clearly voicing each line...
Fortunately Schwarz has camouflaged his theme behind humor and fantasy, so The Dragon remains lighthearted throughout. He pokes fun at the apathetic townsfolk who are unwilling to trade their dragon-induced peace for freedom, but it is a gentle sarcasm, tinged with an acceptance of human nature. As the mild-mannered gardener, who has trained his snapdragons to eulogize the successive dictators, says, "You know, when all is said and done, people need very careful treatment...
...eloquent, filthy madness. Robert Towne's amazing screenplay sketches the self-cannibalizing character of urban growth. There is no scene in the movie which doesn't reek of the Noah Cross character's scent. If there's any weak spoke, it's the banality of the "Chinatown" theme, which never really rings true. Nicholson, it seems, can dip endlessly into some well of inventiveness and charm and never scrape. His J.J. Gittes destroys and transcends the romantic stereotype of the hard-boiled dick; the more he learns about power relations, the less he finds himself able to do about them...