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Depression-depressed. Turned down by the San Francisco Opera, Floyd's revised version of Of Mice and Men is already scheduled for fall production by the bustling young Kansas City Lyric Theater. In the meanwhile, Seattle operagoers greeted the dramatic yarn of George and Lennie with tense attention. At opera's end, Lennie and George are crouched in the same cornfield. In a final gesture of love, George shoots Lennie to save him from the lynchers, and the curtain falls after the final pistol shot...
Sculptor Neke Carson designed a combination fountain-environment that is beautiful to look at and fun to be in. Participants sit inside two large plastic bubbles and watch smaller plastic bubbles floating about in a trough of gurgling water. Ted Hallman, a Zen Buddhism enthusiast, used 100 lbs. of yarn for his African-looking hut. "My idea was to make an environment that was comfortable, soft, with neutral colors and a calming effect," he says. The hit of the show is Furniture Designer Wendell Castle's laminated oak "reclining space for one." Open a marvelously sculptured door and there...
Other works are simpler. Weaver Urban Jupena created a platform covered with a shaggy rug on which conversationalists can sprawl out and playfully tug at the yarn while talking-an idea that can easily be adapted to the home. Apartment dwellers who have always wondered what to do with their skylight may take a lesson from Irv Teibel, a sound engineer. On four platforms beneath the museum's skylights, the contemplator lies back, while sounds of waves, distant bells, or birds singing come softly to his ears from recorded tapes...
...echoes sometimes blend into a solid chorus, credit must be divided between Director Gene Kelly and his choreographer, Michael Kidd. Ernest Lehman's script is based on the Broadway musical (which was based on Thornton Wilder's farce The Matchmaker). It is woven from a solitary yarn. Matchmaker Dolly Levi sets great store by Horace Vandergelder's feed and grain store and decides to snare him for her own. She does. Curtain. In between their coy runaround, tiny complications arise. None of them matter, but several are the premises for blithe and sumptuous dance numbers. The most...
...WILD BUNCH. There are equally generous doses of blood and poetry in this western directed by Sam Peckinpah. Telling a violent yarn about a group of freebooting bandits operating around the Tex-Mex border at the turn of the century, Peckinpah uses both a fine sense of irony and an eye for visual splendor to establish himself as one of the best Hollywood directors...