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This superbly crafted and performed display of puppet artistry combined visual and aural modernism with a politically charged and tragic text The Underground Railway should roll into town more often. "Grave"pronounced the Italian way (GRAH-vay" the composer says"begins with the first four notes of 'Pelleas' and they are repeated, fortissimo, at the climax. By 9 p. m, most of the guests had headed for home, but a couple dozen people sat cloistered around Dylan and Havens as the pair passed a guitar back and forth and reminisced about their old club days. According to all reports, however, Zeffirelli's penchant for overinvention reached its zenith-or nadir-in the last act.

One might deduce from her acrylic-on-paper abstractions that Jillian Stewart is interested in the conflict between chaos and order. And South African musicians are encouraged to play Western pop styles, limiting mbaqanga (pronounced oom-ba-KWANG-a ) music to township bars. Among his chores, Wuorinen will conduct the orchestra's New and Unusual Music series and make repertory recommendations to music director-designate Herbert Blomstedt. It's not used mainly for newsbreaking stories any more, which I think is sad. Between Friday and Sunday the National Video Festival will present at the American Film Institute a whopping 120 hours of programming, including 22 hours shot for television by Jean-Luc Godard, the one major film maker who has plunged headlong into the new medium. Tall women are passed over in auditions in favor of smaller, more ethereal types, because their male counterparts (who generally are not very large) look a lot more impressive partnering delicate little dancers-particularly in choreography featuring athletic lifts and tricky airborne maneuvers. And in "The Philadelphia Attraction" he is poignant and perhaps a little mad as a young circus performer obsessed by getting the secret of a retired escape artist's greatest trick, his famous Philadelphia Attraction, where he somehow lives sealed into a block of ice.

But when something comes along like 'Heartsounds' or 'Murphy's' boy, you grab it" He is the Murphy of "Murphy's Romance" the druggist in a small town (Florence, Ariz, was the location, a mildly eccentric widower who exudes sharp wit and kindness and who befriends Sally Field as a divorcee come to town with her young son to start a horse ranch. Thus even the most iconoclastic modern dance choreographers frequently move from their own companies to guest affiliations with major ballet troupes. We believe in him and who he is no matter what the strain to credibility. And the five-member squad from the RSC did the play on an even smaller scale than the Roundabout had done, sans scenery, light plot and special costumes. Though she has achieved considerable fame, Davis isn't a major pop music star But, she insisted, that isn't one of her goals "I don't want to be a star" she said "The fame, the glamour, that's not for me It's not real life It's so far removed from real life that it's ridiculous "I'm so damned simple and down-to-earth that it's sickening My favorite place to shop is Pic 'n' Save Every time I shop at real deluxe places I'm disappointed I've never been disappointed by Pic 'n' Save. Although the group is off to a quick start recording its first album sooner than do most fledgling bands, the four musicians are nevertheless realistic about what it takes to succeed in the Southern California music scene. This dish, with a few slices of bread, makes an entirely satisfying meal.