Word: anarchistes
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...country doctor, Curtis Names Sr., 64, and the founder of the World Institute on Disability, Edward Roberts, 45, who is a quadriplegic. The grants are for any use the recipient wishes. Irwin, who will make his Broadway debut next month in Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist, plans to use part of the cash to quit teaching and write. "A few friends of mine asked if it would blunt my competitive edge as an actor," says the rubbery-faced performer. "I guess anything-too lean or too fat-can blunt...
Sixty-four year old writer Grace Paley, self-proclaimed "combative pacifist and cooperative anarchist," brought her audience of 150 to laughs and tears last night with lively readings of her feminist fiction...
...documentaries ask: What was it about? How was it? And what can we learn from it? Fortified by various arts council grants, young film makers have scoured archives and garages for old footage and tracked down veterans of quixotic campaigns. Their subjects range from radical idealists to a literary anarchist to the dream of commerce at the 1939 New York World's Fair. But their object is always the same: to train a sympathetic camera on those Americans who marched toward their own versions of Utopia...
...part himself in the original Italian production, and, obviously, the Fool is essentially Fo. As wonderfully played at the Arena by Richard Bauer, the Fool behaves like Karl Marx masquerading as Dr. Hugo Hackenbush. He is what the Russians call a yurodivy, an elaborately disguised truth seeker, an anarchist-individualist working under deep cover...
Fool-Fo, impersonating by turns a police inspector, a high-court judge and a bishop, leads the local police through what is supposedly an official investigation of the anarchist's death. They (Tom Hewitt as the captain, Michael Jeter as the sergeant, Joe Palmieri as an inspector, Raymond Serra as the police chief) are basically cartoons of goons, the Four Stooges horsing around in the basement of the Lubyanka. Fo's jokes sometimes foozle aimlessly about the room like a balloon that jets on its own escaping air. An effort to give an essentially Italian product some American...