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Jeffrey Wayne Davies as Bunthorne the mock aesthete who prides himself on the flock of women who adore him creates a dark but wispy Edgar Allan Poe type a creature of irreproachable vanity and matchless hypocrisy. His mastery of the stage the music the orchestra and the audience during the...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Patience | 12/9/1972 | See Source »

He makes each man a very different type, and he is wickedly on target with both. Birdboot (Tom Lacy) is an expansive, chocolate-munching show-bird chaser who finds almost everything "a rattling good show." Moon (David Rounds) is an emotionally constipated, intellectually rabid exegete; any wispy pile of dramatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Spoof Sleuths, Nix Crix | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

THE U.S.S. Buchanan, a guided missile destroyer, rolls gently in the waters of the Tonkin Gulf, 5,000 yards offshore of the Demilitarized Zone. Overhead, a full moon slips in and out of wispy tangles of cloud. Crew members who are not needed to fire the guns or run the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Sea War: Barrages and Boredom | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

New Blood. The new church-state relationship reflects broader changes in Catholicism itself-changes that have swept away the feudal image of the Spanish church that persisted from the days of Philip II. Gone, except on the grandest feast days, are the somber rows of mantillas that once filled cathedral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Evolution in Spain | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

It contains good, solid country rock, and the music is layered nicely. In general, Marmaduke sings very well; his voice is especially fitted for the Riders' kind of wispy, mournful tunes. Dryden's percussion adds to the tone of the songs without obscuring the foreground. Garcia, as always, is Garcia...

Author: By Dave Caploe, | Title: Riders of the Grateful Dead | 11/6/1971 | See Source »

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