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Love and Larceny. Vittorio Gassman is a gasser in a grab bag of disguises, ends up as a con man conned con amore...
Love and Larceny. Vittorio Gassman is a gasser in a grab bag of disguises, ends up as a con man conned con amore...
...hits since he abandoned his job as a messenger boy four years ago and arrived as a composer with Stupid Cupid. "What we do is take an adult idea and bring it on down to the kids' level," he says. "I figure we have 2½ minutes to grab interest, change pace and paint pictures. A pop song is like a movie-it's a little escape...
...there the similarity ends. A medium-sized colt with a shining dark bay coat, Never Bend likes to grab an early lead and fight off challengers. Candy Spots is a strapping chestnut with curious black and white spots on his rump, who prefers to dwell in the pack, then turn on a withering burst of speed in the stretch. And the horses could hardly have more contrasting jockeys. Never Bend's regular rider is fiery Panamanian Manuel Ycaza, 25, whose terrible-tempered tactics earn him almost as much time on suspension as in the saddle. Candy Spots...
...opening work of the program, Hindemith's Nobilissima Visione, left absolutely no taste at all: it was just another work from the Hindemith grab-bag, competently performed. The suite contains five selections from an unsuccessful ballet which Hindemith began in 1919 on a commission from Diaghilev. The ballet lay unfinished after the death of Diaghilev until Hindemith completed it with Massine in 1937; the ballet failed a year later. The three movements of the present are all typified by the concluding Passacaglia, which consists of nineteen variations on a six-measure theme. Here Hindemith blurs the distinction between economy...