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BROOKLYN-Eastern Parkway. Twenty years of Antonio Frasconi's graphics: 150 woodcuts and lithographs, twelve illustrated books. Through...
...this time the play moves in exactly the opposite direction. Here religion is a dominion of implacable law reducing man and his will to a broken toy; and it is knowledge that is tainted with evil. Through Satan's agent Mephistophilis (James Ray), the learned Dr. Faustus (Lou Antonio) makes a pact with the Devil. He wills his soul to eternal damnation for 24 years of life, during which he will unlock all the secrets of the universe, command all earthly power, be granted every whim of pleasure. The request makes Faustus an archetype of Western man, with...
...imagination, which was fearfully and longingly obsessed by the Christianity that his intelligence scoffed at and rejected. The cast gargles "Marlowe's mighty line" like polysyllabic mouthwash, except for James Ray's Mephistophilis, who, to give him his due, is devilishly good. By contrast, Lou Antonio in the title role is fumbling and playboyish. It is rather too bad that Faustus' pact with Satan should overlook mastery of the part...
...skies, its wide horizons and weirdly shifting perspectives have challenged and eluded more artists than any other city in the world. Of all the painters who have attempted to capture the visual music of Venice-and some of the greatest have been Venetians-none was better attuned than Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known by his nickname Canaletto...
Sinkin, a resident of San Antonio, Texas, and Emmons, of Sudbury, Mass., worked with four other Texans, including three school teachers...