Word: asylums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crowley's next play, opening next fall, is called Remote Asylum. He described it as being about "escapism-drugs, booze, sex, a passport or plane ticket that lets you think you can run away from yourself." The five characters include two heterosexual couples and Michael, a central (and homosexual) character of Boys. Like his first play, Asylum will be in the tradition of the "well-made" American play. But his third play, Crowley said, is "moving further along." All the characters are straight and the structure of the work is influenced by Pirandello, whom he admires greatly...
...latter two-thirds of Johnny Johnson, though, things pick up considerably. Paul Green's epic theatre script holds up far better than one would expect in the second act's cruelty-of-war sequences and in the final act, where the hero returns home to be placed in an asylum (disease: "peace monomania") and discovers that his girl has married the capitalist-pig-next-door. It is hard to imagine any anti-war theatre being effective anymore, but about ten minutes' worth of Johnny Johnson is chilling in this respect...
...Parke-Bernet Galleries, buyers spent $5,852,250 for 72 Impressionist and modern paintings, another $906,375 for 19th and 20th century sculpture. The biggest sale was Van Gogh's Le Cypres et I'Arbre en Fleurs, a sun-touched landscape he painted in the asylum at St. Remy in the last busy and desperate year of his life. It is a relatively small canvas (20¼ in. by 25½ in.), certainly not one of his most spectacular works. Yet an anonymous buyer paid $1.3 million for it, more than three times the previous record...
...matter, the generals overthrew him. Now they are hinting that Arguedas was involved in the cocaine trade. If so, said President Alfredo Ovando Candia last week, this would "complicate Arguedas' situation." To be exact, it would subject Arguedas to a criminal trial, making him ineligible for political asylum and perhaps ensuring that his tapes and those carefully preserved hands would remain permanently out of sight...
...extremists also won the day, though their plans are certain only to worsen the already chaotic situation. Echoing the hard-line view, Planning Minister Václav Hula denounced the decentralization reforms effected by Dubček's chief economist Ota Sik, who last week asked for political asylum in Switzerland. "The economic crisis," Hula declared, "can only be overcome by radical centralization. We shall have to reestablish party control over the upper echelons of industry...