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...opera got little help from Director Langton, who sent the chorus sashaying about the stage with hands on hips, or swaying with hands linked like oldtime Follies girls. Such artists as Mezzos Elaine Bonazzi and Frederica von Stade, Baritone Theodor Uppman and Tenor John Wakefield seemed wasted in their brief roles. Choreographer José Limon certainly knows all there is to know about Spanish tradition and dancing. But even his fertility rite dance in Act III succeeded in looking barren. Musically, Yerma is compelling. But as a dramatic experience, in Santa Fe, Yerma remained yermo...
...Going All the Way, Wakefield (10) 10. Deliverance, Dickey
...days later I read journalist Dan Wakefield's first novel, Going All the Way, for the first time, and, a few days after that, I came to the conclusion that the end will come in a car-the end of me, the end of you, the end of this country, the end of the world. An irrational belief, perhaps, but a firm one. I began to search around for others who felt the same...
...only be found by getting in the car and driving away. They finally decide to go to Chicago ("Chi"), where Gunner has a vague offer to work for an ad-agency. "They came roaring into Chi through a night torched by the steel-mill fires, eerie and hellish," writes Wakefield. They reach a curve in the road and Sonny fumbles, realizing it is "too late, too late even to put on the brake." They head straight into a cement abutment and then smash...
...Going All the Way, Wakefield...