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STRAVINSKY: FOUR ETUDES & LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS (Nonesuch). Pierre Boulez is a protean figure in postwar French music -a first-rate conductor and composer whose creative roots are in the music of Debussy and Stravinsky and the poetry of Baudelaire. No wonder, then, that his rendering of these classics has an almost uncomfortable intensity and excitement-almost as if they were being composed before the listener's ear. Boulez' musical aim is to expose "the naked flesh of feeling," and he does...
...head in the freakish Atlantic Where it pours bean green over blue In the waters off beautiful Nauset. I used to pray to recover you. Ach, du...
Footwear or Firepower? In mid-April, U.S. officials were surprised to note that Saigon businessmen had ordered 150 tons of Du Pont-made Unicel-100, a powdered compound used in the manufacture of rubber sandals. Oddly, that one shipment was sufficient to make 7.5 million pairs, though last year's production in Viet Nam had been no more than 500,000. Du Pont had warned Government men before that the stuff was also a deadly explosive, and AID officials ordered a Naval Ordnance Laboratory test last month to determine its effectiveness. They were surprised to find that the compound...
With good reason. The official competition, which ends late this week, involves only 24 full-length pictures this year; but in the back streets marches the Marché du Film (Film Market), where 160 movies compete for the attention of foreign distributors and critics. The competition is stifling, the pressure unbearable. The performers, the publicists, even the audiences feel it, and the antics become even more frantic than before...
...Soup du Jour. Before Kinging himself, the kid from Brooklyn jumped from dropout to drummer to boxer to dancer. By the time he settled on his name and his occupation, there was nowhere to go but up to the Catskills, where the jokes, like the soup du jour, are always borscht. Notwithstanding the ethnic limitations of comic performance in the borscht belt, King kept plugging, waited to be discovered...