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KING LEAR (Caedmon) is a regal fool who topples into the abyss of unreason to discover the naked truth of the human condition. Paul Scofield is a cool, knowledgeable, self-contained actor who would not dream of venturing past the proscenium arch. In consequence, the recording neither sears nor scars; it might be a useful high school text...
Overeating and fat are my negative identy. I can only find myself by first plunging into the abyss...
Daring this literary brinksmanship, Mailer catches more than a glimpse of the abyss below. "How poor to go to death with no more than the notes of good intention," he wrote six years ago, in Advertisements. Every scene is almost over the edge, compressed with the tension of a man who may slip from his foothold on his own sweat; so is Mailer's prose--sometimes straight narrative riding on the sheer power of events, but sometimes inflated, rhetorical, once or twice embarrassing...
...blame for continued fighting on the National Liberation Front, Hanoi, and China: "Merely negative responses from the Communists--should Hanoi and Moscow follow Peking's lead--will only make crystal-clear where the responsibility lies for pushing Southeast Asia and all the world to the brink of the abyss." (New York Times editorial, April 9) But it is Johnson who is pushing the world to the brink of the abyss. Once Johnson has made credible his intention to devastate the North if Liberation Front victories continue, Ho Chi Minh will have little choice but to strike south in a desperate...
Most successful offerings: Alvin Ailey's Feast of Ashes, a tragic, turbulent story of matriarchal domination; Stuart Hodes's The Abyss, a tale of rape and lost innocence eloquently danced by Lone Isaksen, a young Danish girl who sticks out as the troupe's most promising soloist; Alley's Ariadne, highlighted by a fearsome battle between Theseus and a horde of minotaurs. Tradition was provided by Prima Ballerina Marjorie Tallchief (Skibine's wife and sister of the New York City Ballet's Maria Tallchief) and the famed Danish dancer Erik Bruhn as guest artist...