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...pace never lags, supported by Richard A. Shore's brisk musical direction and David Reiffel's sophisticated, rapid-fire blocking. After 19 successive dousings in intense musical emotion, the audience probably couldn't manage more than the hour the show occupies. Marry Mc A Little isn't cathartic, and it doesn't leave the satisfying sense that Sondheim has worked out the problems of love; then again, no one would really expect him to. Instead, his insights are left vacue enough and universal enough to roll anybody up, and that makes the show as good...
Nonetheless, some industry experts think companies will be forced to cut prices by the brisk business in home-video rentals. Asks Chaz Austin, a cassette retailer in Los Angeles: "Who in his right mind is going to pay $80 for a movie that you can rent for $5?" Some video shops now rent 100 tapes for every one sold...
Drawings for the theater are usually felt to be in a subclass of their own. They are incomplete notes. Who could deduce from Hockney's brisk studies for the mechanical bird in Le Rossignol, for instance, the surprise of its actual intrusion on the stage of the Met, a blazing vermilion-and-gilt apparition in that gauzy, lyric ambiance of K'ang-Hsi porcelain blue? The drawing just looks like a canary on a toy red cart. Yet ingenuity can bridge many gaps, and Hockney is nothing if not ingenious...
Noting that the official logo "is very hard to read," one insider says the Yale Co-op offers a more standard football-shaped emblem crafted by a clerk there. In fact, Co-op President Dick Ballard reports brisk business, listing the numerous items on which their logo appears: "It is on everything. From the preppy button-down shirts to the LaCoste-looking shirts to the sweat-shirts to t-shirts to glasses--highballs and shot glasses--to lucite letter openers. These are sold exclusively at the Yale...
This did not keep grills from opening this fall, however. All nine except Winthrop House's are doing a brisk business, dishing out such House Specialties as the "Bott Dog" in Dunster, in honour of Master Raoul Bott, and the "Wacker Burger," named after South House Master Warren E. Wacker, Winthrop's grill will open November...