Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Child's Garden of Verses, published in 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote to "innocent and honest children" who were "very little, and your bones are very brittle." His concept of childhood as a special, inviolable realm was reflected in the canvases of John Singer Sargent, Lydia Emmet and George Wesley Bellows. The girls they painted were radiant creatures, living in their own protected worlds...
That's a shame, because there are some impressive performances here. Holly Sargent, as the ingenue-secretary who sets her heart on cornering a certain climbing executive for a march to the altar, blends just the right amounts of innocence and calculation, and throws in a decent singing voice, to boot. Thomas Baldridge plays the young-exec-on-the-make a bit too cloyingly--there are times when you want to rough him up a little for being too smarmy, and not nearly charming enough--but still manages a strong performance. And honors for a show-stopping effort...
...should be footnoted for its sheer cloying idiocy. But it doesn't seem to matter. Listen to O'Brien do justice to "Coffee Break," hear Frank Coates, as the stuffily philandering boss, join Baldridge in a rousing rendition of "Old Ivy," and sit back and enjoy as Baldridge and Sargent charm their way through "Rosemary" and "I Believe in You," and you have an evening's entertainment. So what, you say, if this production seems to magnify all the problems of typical House shows--so what if the band screeches, too brassy and too loud, or that the set borders...
...Mindset" is the wordpeople use to talk about the state treasurer's race between incumbent Robert Crane and challenger Lew Crampton. Crane has been there for 14 years--back through the Volpe and Sargent years--and even if the state's electorate goes to the polls to elect a Republican governor, Crane and other Democrats who run for lower state offices always seem to stand pat through the storm...
...bring his chillun up right. He doesn't have the kind of style that spells action, and if he loses this election all people will be able to say is that maybe he is "too nice a guy" to be governor. People like to compare Hatch to Francis W. Sargent, who had a crack at running the state just before Dukakis. The liberals dumped Sargent for Dukakis, who they thought would be a real can-do-kind of guy. Beware of the man who says he really can get things done, because he will try, at everyone's expense.CrimsonLisa Hsia...