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...Opposite Sex (MGM) is one of Hollywood's weirder experiments with taste-the effect, in this case, roughly resembling a dill pickle smothered with whipped cream...
...among the strings, a method pioneered by Composer John Cage, who called it "prepared piano." In 1948 they succeeded in producing a thudding drum effect (by shoving pieces of rubber between the strings) and used it in their version of Ravel's Bolero. Their latest effort is even weirder. The tunes in Soundproof (Greensleeves, Baia, Lover) contain effects that resemble giant rubber bands being plucked, the click of a tack hammer, xylophones and harpsichords, and a sound like a Hawaiian guitar quivering on the breeze. To play these tricks, Pianists Ferrante and Teicher not only mute the strings with...
...Sleepwalker. Author Reid doted on boyhood's weirder aspects-its imaginativeness, its crazy-paved fantasies. Tom, for instance, is a sleepwalker. His "walks" carry him in and out of time itself. He goes back to medieval days and alchemy. He goes back to ancient Greece, back to the Garden of Eden itself. "Well, Adam," says the serpent, "so you've come back at last . . ." But he has not brought any Eve with him-in fact, Eve is conspicuously absent from most of the trilogy...
...show of unexpected twists that could have made him famous as a prose writer if he had never so much as rhymed hell and seashell. Some of the stories sing of the same Welsh town he saluted in Under Milk Wood; others are rambling, obscurely symbolic excursions into weirder regions. In Skin Trade it was Thomas' sardonic intention to tell how a youngster from the provinces lands in London, much as he himself did. Before the boy sets out for the big city, he daydreams about what it will be like. He sees himself knocking at a rooming house...
...rounding up man-in-the-street reactions, as many papers did, none got a weirder assortment than the New York Daily News. It picked some names from the phone book, then decided to "chase around to barrooms, nightclubs and restaurants where most of the people were." Among those quoted in the first News survey: two all-night restaurant proprietors, the owner of a nightclub, Jimmy Durante, a disk jockey and Sammy Fuchs, the unofficial "mayor" of the Bowery...