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...into American. Les Flamandes (The Flemish Women), for example, became Marathon, and metamorphosed from a Belgian character study into a portrayal of the American treadmill. Then came the hard part. Blau wanted the show staged with "everything floating, and the feeling that all was pressed against a tapestry of utter silence." Off-Broadway, utter silence is a phenomenon that usually occurs only after a show closes...
...most glamorous, most electrifying soccer player ever to come out of the British Isles. Says Danny Blanchflower, a onetime soccer great in his own right: "Best's movements are quick, light, balletic. He is a master of control and manipulation. And with it all, there is his utter disregard for danger...
...doing, he has generated a furious debate between those who regard his opponents as so many patsies and those who see him as "a Titan," "a Hercules," a larger-than-life hero who is miraculously real. Intensifying the "hurricanes of polemic," as one sportswriter puts it, is Urtain's utter lack of finesse as a boxer. He is as unpolished as the stones he used to lift, a slugger who at every outing shows a pervasive ignorance of his trade's finer points. Basically, he is a swarming, dervish-like flailer who leaves ringside observers arguing about which...
...order to gauge the full meaning of "repression," it may be necessary to examine, not the particular repression of the conspiracy defendants, but rather the political and social climate which surrounded their trial. It was the war in Victnam, for example, and the utter inflexibility of the "electoral" system which upholds the war, which engendered the original protest and made it successful; the repressive effect which the war has had on society may be viewed in rising taxes for "defense" spending, an inflationary economy which has actually lowered purchasing power and spread poverty in America during the past five years...
With a Jagger-like twang and a positive repulsion against pronouncing any word in its entirety. Morrison sings, shouts, croons and yodels his way through the album. Some lines immediately imprint themselves on your memory, but they are often juxtaposed with utter banality or nonsense syllables to finish out the lines he never quite wrote. Somehow he manages to make this unoffensive, and even likeable...