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...could hardly have come at a better time. The U.S., too long assailed by inflation, shortages and Watergate, sorely needed a diversion. Combatting the sour mood was scarcely behind the students' exuberant rush to take it off; students have never really needed much of a reason to cavort beyond the incandescent mix of youth, health and spring...
...Estro Armonico (The Harmony of Being) is vintage Cranko (1963) that turns out to be a rather mechanical stu dio exercise in balletic geometry. Soloists on stage cavort to solo instrumental moments from three Vivaldi concert! while the ensemble blends with orchestral passages. Plotless but pretty, the work does show off the almost Bolshoi-like muscularity of the Stuttgart's unusually strong male corps and the gamine pertness of lithe Birgit Keil...
...Dancers cavort before a student film crew while near by a gallery displays subtle canvas-on-canvas paintings. Elsewhere young men and women read their latest poetry and a symphony orchestra rehearses a new work, Metamorphoses. The title is appropriate, for the setting is not some artsy experimental college but the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where students traditionally have been more at home with scientific pursuits like laser technology, cancer research and hydroacoustics...
...film trying to subsidize the dream. Meanwhile they live precariously, like Vegas princes in seamy unpaid-for hotel rooms. Jason (Bruce Dera), keeps a harem of two, Sally (Ellen Burstyn), a juicy tart past her prime, and Jessica (Julie Anne Robinson), her puppet-like "stepdaughter." The four cavort from bisexual bedside to desolate beach and boardwalk. But their joyride is scarred by an undertone of tension as they blind themselves to the steady disintegration of their dream...
...seniors of Yale's football varsity today is the last chance. The last chance to pull on the Bulldog blue Jerseys, the last chance to listen to 'Ole Carm's pre-game type, the last chance to cavort in the Stadium. But above all, it is the last chance they will have to beat Harvard in football...