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Miller has attempted something daring with Hamlet. He has tried to make sense out of it, resolving all of the inherent contradictions in the characters and streamlining the script to bring it to terms with post-Freudian rationalism. The result is entirely rational, but wondrous strange...
Story Theater. Whenever theater seems exhausted, someone like Paul Sills comes along to prove that it is inexhaustible. His alchemy remints fables into wondrous blithesome magic...
...What he had was the kind of flame that was ignited by rubbing the smallest phrase just so, and then building from there. "It was like making a happening," he recalls. "When the stars were right, I could kind of get out of myself and into something mysterious and wondrous and exciting." Fleisher is still hoping to achieve such moments at the keyboard again. With great determination, he has plunged into the tiny but exciting piano repertory written for the left hand alone by Ravel, Prokofiev and Britten. Mastering the vast orchestral literature necessary for a conducting career will...
Paul Wunderlich by any other name would be extraordinary, but the fact that in German wunderlich means strange, wondrous, bizarre is a stroke of poetic justice. More elegant than Beardsley, more graphic than Grünewald, more phantasmic than many of the Surrealists, his work is at once sensuous and intellectual, erotic and macabre, pungently realistic and wickedly funny...
...fair has plenty to offer the Japanese and wondrous sights to please the eye of the international fair-hopper. The U.S. Pavilion, where the lines and the wait (as much as five hours) are the longest, is most popular. Sports and space -sure winners in Japan-dominate the "Images of America" theme. By far the biggest attraction of the pavilion-and the fair-is a moon rock brought back by Apollo astronauts. The crowds are also taken with an Andy Granatelli turbocar and, in baseball-crazy Japan, by Babe Ruth's old Yankee uniform and locker. The space display...