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There is a fusing of the steel of modern architecture with the armor of medieval soldiers. Even the terrible knocking at the gate is not the usual pounding on wood but instead a clanking on metal. This is a cool, gray world. The huge portraits of Duncan and later of Macbeth and his wife, which are dropped down from the grid, are not colored oils; they are stark black-and-white photographs. Touches of color in this production are rare, and thus all the more striking...
...night before his departure, Brezhnev spoke on television, as Nixon had done in Moscow. "The Soviet Union and the U.S. are self-sufficient, but to remove cooperation is to turn down substantial benefits," he told Americans. "Mankind has outgrown the cold-war armor which it was once forced to wear. It wants to breathe freely and peacefully." The U.S. and Russia are only at the "beginning of a long road" that will require "constant care, tireless efforts and patience...
...Wall. Even worse, the delegates could not agree on a name for the negotiations. The NATO powers proposed that it be called a conference for Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions (MBFR). That seemingly innocuous suggestion ran into a Soviet stone wall. Because East bloc nations have more troops and armor in Central Europe and even larger numbers near by, any "balanced" reduction would force a greater numerical cut upon them than upon Western nations. As a result, almost every meaningful word was slashed from the official communique of the first session, and the conference was blandly described as "the consultations...
...natural wool backed with steel wool that is kept in place by a fine mesh screen. "I used it recently on a cut finger and it healed quickly," says Peter. He also practices a few other Reichian techniques, including screaming and forced vomiting to soften up the "muscular armor"-the uptightness of the body that Wilhelm Reich believed could interfere with the healthy flow of orgone...
Subtlety is unwelcome in White's screenplay. To illustrate that Max's coarseness and brutality are only a defense, he has him dress in layers of clothing, ragged protective armor that Max sheds in a perilously symbolic striptease. It will not do for White to have Lion just freak out; he must grow blank and rigid right on the stone paws of a lion that decorates a Detroit fountain. Director Schatzberg (The Panic in Needle Park, Puzzle of a Downfall Child) bats out these sorry epiphanies and maudlin metaphors with the eager aplomb of a rookie swatting fungoes...