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Hill climbing hit the big time in 1957, when a Maserati took the title. The next year, Germany's famed Wolfgang von Trips (who died in a Ferrari in the 1961 Italian Grand Prix) won the championship in a Porsche. A Ferrari took the prize in 1962, but in the past two years, the rear-engined, bug-low German Porsches dominated the races...
...want to tell you about the plot, but let me not briefly that the single thing that would make this production more cohesive would be an extraordinary Mathilde von Sahnd. Joan Abrahams, strapped into a hunchback's brace, must be a real contortionist to get through the evening; she plays the role quietly and competently. A performer with greater vitality might somehow have been able to suggest the importance and the ominousness of this figure. The production's asscts include a splendid set by Donald Mullin and fine lighting by Don Cate...
...Mars. This turned on the camera's shutter mechanism, started the scan platform searching with a wide-angle sensor for light from Mars, and turned on the tape recorder's power. Everything was going unbelievably well. Newsmen and families of the scientists gathered in JPL's Von Kármán Auditorium to await the cryptic reports from the primary tracking stations at Johannesburg in South Africa, Woomera in Australia and Goldstone in California...
...Rush is excellent and shows Rush at his most versatile. It includes "If Your Man gets Busted;" "When She Wants Good Loving," from the flip side of "Idol with the Golden Head" by the Coasters, a of "The the invariably request John," another von...
...write groovy at the range of but I doubt that any coming a folk virtous to him. More critics place Rush at evolving city-blues somewhere obscurity and crass country. While purists may the motley influences gone into his style-- as disparate as the Swan Silvertones and Eric von Rush sings more good than most folksing today...