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...VELVETEEN RABBIT OF CITYDOM
...mother grew up there. Your story on the life-style of drifters who live in motels [SOCIETY, May 29] used the town as one example of a place where many down-on-their-luck people can be found. I'm tired of Needles bashers. Needles is the Velveteen Rabbit of citydom. It has a proud heritage that reaches far back. The first ferries, then bridges over the Colorado River at Needles allowed the Golden State of California to become what it is today. General George Patton camped his troops in the Needles valley during World War II. Eleanor Roosevelt stopped...
...Middle East. 472 Mass Ave., Cambridge. 497-0576. Downstairs: Miles Dethmuffen, Janet LaValley, Velveteen on Thurs., April 6. Brainiac and Garden Variety on Fri., April 7. Leftover Salmon on Sat., April 8. Gage on Sun., April 9. Our lady Peace on Tues., April 11. Last Poets on Wed., April 12. Upstairs: Curtain Society, Curious Ritual, St. Cimera and Partners in Flight on Thurs., April 6. Peter Wolf on Fri., April 7. Lyres, 1313 Mockingbird Lane, Johnny Black Trio and Drysdale on Sat., April 8. Lois on Sun., April 9. Technical Jed on Tues., April 11. The Last Poets...
...minute piece opens with the seven women in the slinky velveteen dresses of costume designer Frances Kenny. With the help of Alexander Heddinger's eerie lighting, the women's bodies seem to glow from within. They glide solemnly across the stage, occasionally sinking to the floor or collapsing into one another's arms. Sometimes they pause in a dreamy tableaux, their arms reaching toward the heavens. At times, however, the religious motif becomes too heavy-handed, as when six women lift the seventh into a distinct crucifixion pose and walk reverently in a circle with her body...
...sexual overtones of the second section do serve as a lead-in to the next, in which Graney explores women's roles as sex objects. No longer playful, the women now strut coolly about the stage in their tight velveteen dresses and red spike heels. The sexy entourage is periodically interrupted, however, by a woman who stumbles in her shoes, tugs at her dress, or collapses into a flailing tantrum. The women seem torn between the power of their sexual identity and the pain they must endure to maintain...