Word: torches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...choreographer of decadence--his "Rich Man's Frug" was one of the best things in his earlier staging of Sweet Charity--serves to summon up a wealth of period references--the tinkly, jarring music of Kurt Weill, the angular, fantastic interiors of Dr. Caligari, the smoky torch songs of Blue Angel, and the bloated Bacchanites of George Grosz. In fact, his effects are occasionally so persuasive as to be claustrophobic--particularly when you add the excess of close-ups Fosse uses to tell his story...
...problems of everyman, they become the problems of family, government, education, and all social institutions. The late Walter Gropius, founder and head of the Bauhaus (1919-33)--the famous German design school--put art in such a position: art became intimate with the present, and took up the humanist torch to serve man and society. After fleeing from Nazi Germany, Gropius furthered this ideal as Chairman of the Department of Architecture at Harvard from...
...tour the division's own small pharmaceuticals factory, which produces medicine for stomach ailments, aspirin and a digestive candy made from crab apples and honey. In some rooms, women close glass vials with a blow torch as soldiers fill the vials with yellow medicine. The operation is simple and clean. Most of the operations are done by hand...
...with beer cans. They fling bricks at passing fire trucks and often hit the fire men. "Burn, baby, burn!" they chant as their neighbors' homes incinerate, and often as not investigation shows that the fires Smith fights were set by rejected lovers or crafty landlords or teen-age torch parties...
...Since I Fell For You" is an old torch song that has been recorded by numerous artists, but Bonnie's version displays a sincerity and feeling that has only been surpassed by Lenny Welch, whose rendition was a big hit in the early sixties. "Any Day Woman", a recent Paul Siebel composition, is almost too pretty a song for my tastes, but is redeemed by the sympathetic vocal interplay between Bonnie and Willie. Her remake of John Koerner's "I Ain't Blue", one of the record's high points, creates an entirely different, but no less powerful, feeling than...