Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pierre Roy, a Do It Yourself veteran, infuses a rich pathos into two laments about the hollowness of show business life, "What's Next" and "Watch the Birdie." "A Few Years," one of Barclay's most majestic numbers, begins as a take-off on blind American optimism; through the sincerity of Rod Skinner's rendition, however, it becomes a moving affirmation of the need to go on believing in America's future, despite the scars of "bigotry, of pride...
What remains confused, however, is the underlying rationale for the show's abrupt shifts in mood, which are matched only by the noisiness of the set changes. To be sure, Bicentennial Follies is fun to watch; it's certainly possible to enjoy lilting voices and mildly amusing comic vignettes without insisting on dramatic coherence. If Bicentennial Follies gets good mileage out of the exposure and inversion of American values, it also illustrates the inversion of one good old American saying: for here is one case, at least, where the sum of the parts is infinitely greater than the whole...
...comfortable conference room where reporters were waiting to watch the program, laughter broke out. The picture on the color television set remained blank, but the voices of the candidates came through clearly on the loudspeakers...
Interesting to watch, too, will be the media and advertising blitz the candidates will direct in the next three days at voters in a populous, urban state--unlike New Hampshire--where handshaking and coffee klatsches have their limits...
...suspect, without a very large contingent of fans. They beat nationally-ranked Michigan State twice under similar conditions over the Christmas break. Harvard's squash team is the best in the country; yet they draw only a small fraction of the number of people who go to watch hockey. In short, a good team should not need a boisterous crowd to win! Art Powell...