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Later, he's in Tony Volpe's bar, as usual, staring at the black topless dancer, utterly at home. And again he muses to himself: "She sure is a fine-looking woman. But she's black. I suppose there's no difference, though," etc. More cliches, and again an inevitable...
Ma-Gico even seems capable of controlling the audience. "Watch the mirrors," she instructs them, in a reference to the mylar-coated reflecting panels which encircle the stage. "Every eye is a mirror," she adds mysteriously, and all of the actors immediately freeze, staring intently at the audience for what...
In the sheep barn they are judging black-faced Suffolks. As the owners hold their animals' heads with one hand and rumps with the other, a judge crouches in the center of the ring, staring each bleating contestant in the eye. He gets up, walks over and sticks a...
The major innovation was Ustinov's abandonment of the traditional setting of the opera-the brocaded and balconied court life of old Seville-in favor of a Goyaesque countryside vision of 18th century Spain. "Like Goya," said Ustinov, "Mozart had a fine sense of the intense dark and light...
IT WASN'T LONG after that before I fell in love. But I found soon enough that he was gay. And so sophisticated. Our first time out, he told me about his Oedipal complex, about how everybody he knew was in psychoanalysis, about how he spent his freshman year staring...