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...Crucible, a contemporary opera based (tenuously) on the play by Arthur Miller, keeps reminding you how good it is all evening long, and necessarily so: without reminders, one would forget very quickly. The music, by Robert Ward, is a nightmarish splice of bad Richard Strauss and the sound track from the scenic sections of a True Life Adventure Film. The product of too much emotion music form Grade B movies, Ward's chords smother in their instumescence. When Ward does shear off the blathering orchestral fat, the musical thought that remains strikes out as absolutely insipid. Three hours of such...
...more solid architectural wonders to dazzle the imaginations of stay-at-home Britons, and artists started to make sketching trips to China and India to satisfy this curiosity about all things Eastern. Most important of these was an uncle-and-nephew team. Thomas Daniell and his 17-year-old ward William. This week a show of their work, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution, opens at the University of Chicago...
Bypassing the Court. Faced with dwindling federal revenues because of a recession, Grover Cleveland tried to revive the income tax in 1894. Rich New York Socialite Ward McAllister threatened to leave the country if the tax was enacted. Thundered Democrat William Jennings Bryan: "If 'some of our best people' prefer to leave the country rather than pay a tax of 2%, God pity the worst!" The bill passed-but the Supreme Court, by a vote of five to four, declared it unconstitutional...
Barbuda is 28 miles north of Antigua, which has been definitely In for the past few years, mainly because of the presence of the Mill Reef Club at Exchange Bay. Founded by Robertson ("Happy") Ward, a designer of tropical resorts, Mill Reef is spread over 1,440 acres, where 50 proprietary members have houses (there are 250 additional members), and there are 31 rooms for guests. Rates for two people: $50 a day. Non-members may come only once; unless they are invited to become members or visit a member, that's the last they see of Mill Reef...
Strong stuff, and Director Blake Edwards (Breakfast at Tiffany's) does not dilute it. The liquor flows hard and fast, and the scenes in the alcoholic ward are guaranteed to take the lining off a sober spectator's complacency. Then and always, Lemmon's portrayal is easily the most intelligent, intense and complex performance so far accomplished by an actor who started out as a light comedian but apparently can do darn near anything he pleases in front of a camera and most of the time do it better than any American cinemactor of his generation...