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...Stranger in the Mirror...
...sport becoming a series of organized assaults? Is the new violence an indicator of a lawless epoch, a broken mirror-image of the country at large? The conclusions are not as obvious as they seem. Professional sport is in fact no more violent than it used to be. The beanball has been with us since baseball began. Back in 1920, Cleveland Indian Ray Chapman was killed by Yankee Carl Mays' fastball. Twenty years ago Giant Pitcher Sal Maglie was given the sobriquet "the Barber" because of the close shaves his fastball gave the faces of hitters. Don Drysdale...
...mirror to music--tracing its form with a mind to undermining its content--is what Kramer does as well in "Haiku." Sitting on stage, cellist Ron Heifetz bows the trills of a Bach suite to no more than a half-dozen dance motifs. The choreography is skeletal, easily divisible into separate parts, and echoes the simplicity of the music's deep-down design...
...Manhattan's Vivian Beaumont Theater, shaped with satanic brilliance by Director Richard Foreman, is abrasive, stylized and sinister. Brecht's message -sprayed on the stage like graffiti on a subway train-is that the underworld of rapacious thieves, fawning beggars and mercenary prostitutes is an exact mirror image of property-minded, shark-toothed bourgeois society...
...Document, Wo/lace (9) 5-A Stranger in the Mirror...