Word: uptightness
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...days of Swan Lake and Giselle are gone forever," says Brian Macdonald, the director of the Harkness Ballet. "Today's choreographer can choose any subject he likes." In ballet, the fairy-tale prince of yore is now more likely to be an uptight hippie blowing his mind on pot. Suicide, alienation, bigotry are all possible subjects for dance-as are cerebral abstractions or psychedelic nightmares. As for sex, the prettily stylized love gestures of romantic ballet have given way to body-blending duets that look like lovers' lanes in living color...
...down and around the ingenious three-story set of Designer Ming Cho Lee. Their steps, gestures and facial miming are deftly coordinated with a mind-blowing razzle-dazzle of sound effects. Among the players, Jack Hollander is ebulliently disreputable as Wacholder, while Tom Aldredge makes an antiseptically uptight Wurz. The charmer of the production is Wurz's dimpled dumpling of a wife, played by Maxine Greene, 23, making her Manhattan debut-as a human being; her previous appearances have been in The Wizard of Oz as Toto the dog, and in Spurt of Blood as an orangutan...
Only one student said people changed their estimation of him because he had been in a mental hospital. "They were very straight, very uptight people," he said. "They just didn't know how to handle the situation. One of my roommates treated me very gingerly, as if he were afraid of me. The other regarded me voyeuristically, and was offensively solicitious about everything...
...head and the men from something called the Federal Board of Regulation trying to kill him for the same reason. Coburn romps spryly through the part, with the comic cooperation of Severn Darden as a friendly Russian spy with an Oedipal problem, and Walter Burke as the uptight head of the FBR who exhorts his faceless men (all under 5 ft.): "Kill him . . . the nation expects it ... think of your mothers." Coburn's most dangerous and ingenious pursuer, though, turns out to be an automated phone company and-the film's best real-life touch-it seems...
...Prefacing everything by saying, "If I become a candidate," he predicted "a close, hard fight in this state" that "I don't expect to lose." Both in New Hampshire and Chicago, his next stop on the way to Wisconsin, he was a genial, relaxed version of the old uptight campaigner. He even had some spare empathy for Johnson ("I've had a few problems with the intellectuals myself"), and in discussing the U.S. commitment in Viet Nam, Nixon sounded as if he had employed Dean Rusk's speechwriter. "But," said Nixon, "never has such awesome military power...