Word: wanderers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Walking through the Yard during Commencement Week, you pass countless numbers of "classmates" and assorted family in town for their twenty-fifth reunion. Workmen clatter chairs in Tercentenary Theatre and student porters wander from building to building and House to House carrying baggage, playing baby-sitter and being generally affable...
...kids wander around the place, not exactly at home but definitely in control of the situation. Michael, with the loveliest, fullest, twelve-year-old Afro you'll hope to see, has the history of the group down pat: "We all started singing together after Tito started messin' with Dad's guitar and singin' with the radio. It was Tito decided we should form a group, and we did, and we practiced a lot, and then we started entering talent shows, and we won every one we entered, and then we did this benefit for the mayor...
...Buttercup Chain is a leaden comedy-melodrama about the intramurals two young couples play as they wander around England, Spain and Sweden. The characters are in their early 20s, but by comparison to the children in the other youth pictures, they seem to be drifting into senility, an impression strongly reinforced by their mummified acting. Jane Asher and Sven-Bertil Taube are attractive and easy enough to take, but Hywel Bennett looks like a cross between Paul McCartney and Elmer Fudd. Then there is doe-eyed Leigh Taylor-Young, an actively bad actress who improves only when she takes...
...newest hot ticket on Broadway these days?$55 a pair from scalpers ?is an admission to a haunted house. Elegiac strains of the '20s, '30s and '40s hover in the wings. Ectoplasmic chorines, all beads and feather boas, wander across the stage like Ziegfeld girls come back to life. Characters are at once 19 and 49. Time bounces off the walls, like sound and light brilliantly altered and distorted...
...instance, rhapsodizes to his daughter, "This is it, Mary Anne, the hub of the hub of the "universe. Culture! The reason you're here is to let some of the culture rub off on you. Culture has to do with responsibility..." Many Anne doesn't reply, but as they wander through the Museum, she keeps repeating in awe to herself, "Dynamite! Dy-na-mite...