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California--In a state that has cooked up a dazzling array of eccentric political personalities, the current Senate contest between Democratic Senator John F. Tunney and Republican S.I. Hayakawa is certainly not an anomaly. Hayakawa, a conservative folk-hero from the days of campus unrest, has launched his political casreer at the ripe age of 70. With a tam-o-shanter upon his head as a trademark, the college president travels the state with a bizarre campaign style that features frequent expressions of disinterest about a wide variety of issues. Tunney's bland, Eastern style--including a Kennedyesque accent--palls...
...business. So is For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf, a "choreopoem" about being black and female that is one of the most poignant dramas to fill a commercial theater in years. More important yet, Broadway's black bonanza has drawn together an array of talent-actors, singers, dancers, writers, choreographers and directors-as well as steadily growing numbers of black theatergoers-who can only enrich popular culture in all its manifestations...
Sensual Fantasy. The Tavern's first-night gala was more like an operetta than a restaurant opening, with five bands, fiddlers and jugglers introducing each of nine courses, and a wild array of plumage on all the Beautiful People that was a direct result of their host's request that they wear "garden formal." What is garden formal? LeRoy answered his question by wearing a gold-spangled suit with spangled blue-gold rep tie and rhinestone-studded glasses that made him resemble a well-padded Elton John...
...Institute for the Arts at Houston's Rice University (where it was shown last spring), it is a collective effort of numerous curators, headed by Yvonne Brunhammer from the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. It contains more than 700 items by scores of artists-a brilliant array of objects, most of which have never been on display...
...Wave directors to rebellion. The movie confuses fecklessness with charm, trips so lightly that it never settles down to anything telling. Gallic comedies like Cousin, Cousine are animated by a certain earthbound volatility of spirit and depend on a willingness to believe that sensuality can come in an array of sizes and shades, all pastel...