Word: betraying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...break into "Carol," an old Chuck Berry number, Jagger has to work out harder than he ever had to before. He has an accomplished body, schooled in mime, and on stage he's all flash and sex, pure wildness, the natural pop idol, Neither his body not his face betray any clear sexual commitment, it's all energy, sick and mannered, a come-on for male and female alike, a ferocious invitation to a cosmic gang bang where penises and breasts, vaginas and asses will intermingle without valence. His hands are wonderfully expressive, what Attend may have had in mind...
These one-word titles betray a poverty of dramatic invention. Stomp's cast is energetic, visibly sincere and hopelessly amateurish. The show's ingredients come in the familiar Dropout Kit-anti-Viet Nam, pro-pot, anti-haircuts, pro-four-letter words. The saddest trouble with so many of "the kids" is that they have become such conformist old fossils while scarcely out of their teens...
...EASIER to create your culture heroes around people who are dead; they can't buck whatever image you give them. They can't betray your faith in them. And that's how Richard Farina, posthumously, and therefore, one would assume, unconsciously, began his plastic, fantastic ascent to heroic stature...
ANGELS FALLING by Janice Elliott. 409 pages. Knopf. $6.95. Miss Elliott's three generation chronicle of a British family named Garland-many of whose members betray great emotion by throwing up -reads a bit like the Forsyte Saga eviscerated for television...
...Kramer admits now. It is tempting to dismiss Stanley Kramer as a big-time film producer with six million dollars to make a movie. But standing in front of us, he looked vulnerable. His answers were nervous and he swept back his close-cut hair as if disorder might betray his appearance. His favorite film this year was "If," he said, because it destroyed his false sense of values. He was brought up believing that "men were made on the playing fields of Eton...