Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...singer who has ever been buffeted by a Wagnerian orchestra knows that a performance of Die Walküre (four hours) calls for the constitution of a wild ox. At a Walküre performance last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, some of the singers were in sub-ox condition; and before the final curtain fell, substitutes had shuttled on and off the stage in an evening of monumental confusion...
...truth is that most Broadway shows have long been as easy to attend as a movie; playgoers who merely drift up to the box office at curtain time can generally plunk down their money and walk right in. One night last week, for example, only three of Broadway's 29 shows were sold out by 5 130: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Night of the Iguana and Milk and Honey. (Since the most publicized shows are the ones that nearly all out-of-town visitors want to see. the impossible-ticket myth has spread...
...carriages into Manhattan's Central Park. Up pop two tottery man-sized heads. These premature grownups in baby bonnets promptly explain that their caterwauling tantrums are not simple diaper and meal calls, as adults believe, but stem from a voracious and frustrated thirst for learning. They want to walk, talk, build houses, and have babies of their own. Their keepers, a fat mother who gorges herself on candy-counter goodies and a nurse who gobbles up drugstore novels, are shown to be truly infantile. But after the age-group hourglass has been turned upside down, the sands of drama...
...Annie has packed herself into stretch pants only to find that she is courting disaster at every turn. Gasps one: "Every time I climb into my pants I have the feeling that somewhere the stretch is going to give; I'm afraid to sit down, and I just walk around like a mechanical soldier. The fellows don't realize that Bogners are really gigantic girdles. Last week I was dancing with a Dartmouth senior who kept ogling this blonde who could hardly move in her stretchies. 'Now there's a nice pair of Bogners...
Before he sits down to play a concert, Pianist John Browning follows a simple routine: he eats an early dinner (steak and baked potato), takes a short brisk walk to the concert hall, touches his fingers to his toes 25 times. The acrobatics, he explains, are to get the blood out of his stomach and into his hands, where it belongs. Over the years, the exercises have proved remarkably effective-at 28, Browning is one of the most gifted pianists of his generation. Last week, playing with the New York Philharmonic under Guest Conductor Georg Solti, he reminded audiences just...