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...more durable musicals, there are Bye Bye Birdie, a rousing rock-'n'-roll call for an Elvis-type monster; Fiorello!, a more fun- than smoke-filled memoir of New York City's late embattled mayor; and West Side Story, Romeo and Juliet in a brilliantly choreographed Manhattan rumble. Among the dramatic works, the midsummer's night cream includes Toys in the Attic, Lillian Hellman's corrosive piece concerning a weakling whose old-maid sisters depend on his dependence; The Tenth Man, ancient Jewish exorcism strikingly put to work on modern neurosis; and The Miracle Worker...
...West Side front as far as new shows are concerned, and among the old, the summer sun has roasted into oblivion a few that the critics missed. Of the more durable musicals, there are Bye Bye Birdie, a rousing rock-'n'-roll call for an Elvis-type monster; Fiorello!, a more fun-than smoke-filled memoir of New York City's late mayor; and West Side Story, Romeo and Juliet in a brilliantly choreographed Manhattan rumble. Among the dramatic works, the midsummer's night cream includes Toys in the Attic, Lillian Hellman's corrosive piece...
...doesn't run the sizzling sexpots. When the U.T. was abuilding 30 years ago, its owners had to promise Harvard not to show anything that might give the kiddies lewd ideas. He also avoids the teen-age monster rubbish because it attracts too many little rough-rocks...
Suddenly the blue-green Gulf Stream erupted with convulsive fury. Like a giant marlin in a cascade of brine, a grey, bottle-shaped monster leaped into the afternoon. For an instant it hung against the sky-silent, ominous, streaming foam. Then it came alive with unearthly racket. Its tail belched flame, and it climbed into its new element with incredible ease. Arcing high into the thin, cold reaches of space, the first ballistic missile ever to be fired from a submerged submarine swung surely toward the south and east. Polaris, named for the mariner's bright pole star, needed...
...height (whereas eldest brother Edward IV was a muscular giant of 6 ft. 4 in.), was not visibly deformed. "Crouch-back" probably referred to a shoulder slope induced by vigorous practice which overdeveloped the muscles of his sword arm. Shakespeare, truckling to the Tudor court, made Plantagenet Richard a monster...