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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play flashes into lucidity every now and then when Japes Emerson's Benedick and Anne Beresford Clarke's Beatrice parry each other's verbal thrusts. Clarke assumes the stage with an assurance other performers whose roles had been mangled could not afford. Her voice is not large or overpowering; instead of ringing out, it pierces and slices--but that's an effective sound for this razor-tongued heroine. Emerson's Benedick is youthful and athletic, but not terribly well-defined; Shakespeare suggests he ought to be something of an eccentric...
...true, of course, that the energies of this art sprang full-formed from the head of the Revolution. Moscow, before 1917, was one of the chief condensers of advanced cultural ideas-thanks not only to the artists themselves, but to bourgeois Maecenases like Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morosov, whose enthusiasm for modern French art (Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso, in particular) is still evident in the great public collections of Moscow and Leningrad. There was a steady traffic of ideas, paintings and of the artists themselves between Russia, France and Italy...
Obsession with secrecy was equally futile. Commanders on the carrier Essex won permission to let their pilots overfly the beach only after the aircraft insignia were obliterated with gray paint. But only the U.S. Navy flew the A-4D jet fighter, whose distinctive silhouette was instantly recognizable. Similarly, a crew was sent over the side of the destroyer U.S.S. Eaton to paint out the ship's name. Yet the vessel's outline could be clearly identified as that of a U.S. warship; at binocular range, even the raised lettering could be read...
...first sellout. Soon after that Parker's career stalled over a hasty and ill-received live album and a subsequent wrangle with the Mercury record company. Recovering nicely, he recorded Squeezing Out Sparks in eleven days, and penned a lively little remembrance of his old label, whose title, Mercury Poisoning, tells the story snugly and settles a few scores too: "The company is cripplin' me/ The worst trying to ruin the best . . . I've got Mercury poisoning/ The best-kept secret in the West...
...1930s: hero and heroine take an instant dislike to each other, then find grounds for affection in the course of squabbling their way through the picture. In this case the premise involves a successful perfume manufacturer (this ties in with Streisand's famous proboscis-get it?) whose accountant has absconded with all her assets except an inactive prizefighter (Ryan O'Neal). The boxer had been kept on the payroll as a tax loss, which suited him just fine since boxing was the sort of sport at which he imagined he might get hurt...