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...Sail Away (Original Broadway Cast; Capitol). Noel Coward's strenuously hedonistic lines sound a little weary here, and his wit is Princeton Tiger '24 ("If you want to play strip poke /With the girls in cabin B/ Come to me, dear boys, come to me." But in a couple of songs (Where Shall I Find Him?, Later than Spring) Elaine Stritch whoops it up as if she were really riding a winner...
Lost Lady. The author is now nicely above the treetops; he could sail for a while and eventually arrive safely back on earth. Instead, he throws away all his sandbags and soon is far out in the grey with nothing below him but open water. For the last 40 pages, 'the story is a meditation on the incident by a bemused academic type who indulges himself in lengthy prose calisthenics on the destructive force of innocence in American society. It is a good meditation, filled with elaborately balanced sentences that deserve to' be read twice, and must...
...Moon-Smeared Seas. The world he paints is as private as the life he leads. Ghostly boats sail his moon-smeared seas, and kindergarten monsters roam his curious landscapes (see color). These, says Pedersen, are "fairytale pictures," and like all fairy tales, they have a touch of sorcery. Pedersen has never broken faith with childhood; basically he is an unspoiled innocent whose paintings sometimes have the quality of folk art, and almost always have the atmosphere of the nursery. The most ordinary everyday experience catapults him into fantasy. "To make a painting," he explains, "is a process by which...
About 11 p.m., Harvey testified at a hearing, he encountered a sudden tropical squall, which snapped the mainmast before he could reef sail. Mary Harvey and Dr. Duperrault were slightly injured but not badly, as the splintered mast pierced the deck. Harvey was separated from the others by the fallen mast; then fire broke out in the fuel storage tank, spreading to the crumpled sails. Quickly, Harvey released the dinghy and a raft, ordered the others to abandon ship. Then he dived after them and swam to the drifting dinghy. He recovered René, unconscious while floating in an oversized...
They say we sail tonight...