Word: excess
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...into television. He is getting busier and busier as a conductor, too, in the international style in which he does everything. When friends urge him to slow down, he reminds them of what the late Sir John Barbirolli once said: "When you're young you should have an excess of everything. If you haven't excess, what are you going to pare off as the years...
This fall in the same arena, the same company plays Jarry with manic polish and aggressiveness. There are moments of tedium, but more than a few moments of genius. Most interesting is Jarry's exploration-from the comic-erotic novel Supermale-of sexual excess pursued to the point of agony and death. Demonstrating incidentally that the body costumed can be more profoundly arousing in theater than the body naked, Jarry on sex as produced by Barrault is visually delightful, intellectually provocative, closer to Sade's black understanding than to Tynan's slick preaching...
...erratic index also declined three months ago -with little impact on consumer prices. After a hesitation in late summer, consumer-price inflation has speeded up again almost to the fast pace of last winter. The C.E.D.'s analysis is that prices are no longer being pulled up by excess demand, which the Government has effectively attacked by holding down federal spending and the increase in the nation's money supply. Instead, prices are being pushed up by the wage-cost pressures that an incomes policy would be aimed against...
...states and the West as well can enjoy the luxury of skepticism about the federation. The obstacles in the way of the union are numerous. Both Numeiry and Gaddafi realize that an Egyptian President, whoever he is, would always dominate the alliance. Sudan fears that Cairo will dump its excess population on the spacious land...
...surely only a Harvard production could lack what most acting companies have in excess ethnic flavor. The Radcliffe Grant-In-Aid production of Funny Girl plays the story of a young Jewish New York comedienne with a cast of well groomed aristocrats. This leads to some of the worst and the best moments of the evening. The worst: Phil Gabrielli is competent but ridiculous as suave Jewish gambler Nick Arristein. He plays him like Cyril Ritchard dipping his pinky finger into something icky. John Cook as theatrical entrepreneur Flo Ziegfeld tries hard but is equally unlikely. The best: a Ziegfeld...