Word: wondrousness
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...wondrous place where branches hang from every tree...
Eric Clapton at the Boston Garden (where the wondrous Celts play during the winter) is the big deal on the local music scene this week. Clapton is, or was at one time, as you probably know, God. It's hard to say what he is now--he's just coming off a long bout with heroin and is as a result in a getting-myself-back-together stage. But indications all suggest he's still great; his new single, "I Shot the Sheriff," is teriffic and his history is epic. Clapton is a giant figure in rock. The problem...
...stridently monotonous note in Roberta Maxwell's voice box. Her Juliet is a fishwife haggling unsuccessfully over a flounder rather than a young girl losing the world and her dear life for love. David Birney's Romeo is so limp and bland that it comes as a wondrous surprise that he has either the will or strength to climb to Juliet's balcony. Mercutio, that man from whom words flow like liquid light, emerges in David Rounds' rendering as little more than a stand-up nightclub comic...
...Henry Aldrich tradition, in which the awkwardness, sexual inexperience and general un-worldliness of youth are good only for an indulgent, nostalgic laugh. They are never touched by honest rue, let alone intimations of tragedy. The program is full of period references-Mickey Spillane, stuffing telephone booths, a wondrous new gadget known as the seat belt-but there is never a reference to the human heart...
...wondrous gadgetry of the system, with its tiny hidden mikes, its voice-actuated mechanism that required only a few spoken words to set recorder reels twirling in obscure recesses of the E.O.B., fascinated the President, his aides say. Moreover, what assistant could be more efficient than this omniscient and faithful monitor? Some presidential conversations, especially those with world leaders, were too important to permit misunderstandings. In the first 2½ years of the Nixon presidency, such advisers as Henry Kissinger, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman laboriously took notes at important meetings. All three soon became much too busy for that...