Word: working
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Horovitz has set the work in Harlem, on one particular morning when a black family of four wakes up to find themselves as white as the sun outside their 125th Street window. They achieved this color transformation, you see, with the help of some amazing pills sold to them by a Jewish pawnbroker who got them from God (who is black), (Or maybe you don't see- it doesn't matter...
...they futilely try to find a piece of the action they can call their own, the people of Noon are totally pathetic. This essential pathos of the work keeps it from being erotic. Still, McNally's documentation of the sexual mores involved- complete with whips and chains, undressing, and noneuphemistic language- will nonetheless strike some people as obscene. That's their problem...
...Crimson harriers, who have coasted to victory in every competition so far this fall, worked hard in practice last week, mixing the hill work in Waltham with running on the track. There was a light workout, Saturday and none yesterday, when the team left for New York...
...style. "So Sad," and Everly Brothers tune which was soggily sentimental in the original, becomes much more alive with a rock background. Lennon and McCartney's "Don't Let Me Down" also comes off with considerably more personality than the original, with some very effective slide guitar and piano work...
...characters whose precision excludes sentimental excess. He describes them in their gestures, their social situations, their physical settings, by the clarity of his dramatic and visual style. But it is impossible to avoid feeling regret for them. The control Ophuls maintains over this feeling makes La Ronde a perfect work. Never does he impose an attitude or an emotion upon his audience. His style rather becomes a persuasive totality which reveals itself to us as art while showing us particular loves...