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...This is partly because the playgoer knows from the first skitterish-tigerish encounter that Chicken and Myrtle are fated to be sexmates. The dialogue is surprisingly colloquial for Williams and lacks the requisite venom or eloquence. Most damagingly of all, the play becomes a sleepwalking tour of the dusty attic of memory. Between coughing bouts, Lot recalls his Oedipalsy life with mother, and Myrtle shuffles through an account of her showgirl days with the Five Hot Shots from Mobile. The actors are uniformly admirable, and Estelle Parsons (Buck Barrow's wife in Bonnie and Clyde) is more than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: The Seven Descents of Myrtle | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

Collage, for example, was originally developed by the cubists; yet when the German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters began to build his many-splendored "Merz pictures" from old newspaper scraps, driftwood, buttons and other attic rubbish, his works took on a pathos and intimacy that more formal cubist compositions lacked. Schwitters himself always insisted that Merz was a nonsense syllable, derived from a phrase from an advertisement for the "Kommerz und Privatbank." But merzen is also an obsolete German verb connoting rejection. Both as nonsense and as nostalgia, Schwitters' handsome, 5-ft. by 4-ft. Merz Picture with Rainbow clearly foreshadows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Museums: The Hobbyhorse Rides Again | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

...PRICE. Arthur Miller again walks the treadmill of filial duties and familial guilts as two brothers (Pat Hingle and Ar-ijf thur Kennedy) meet in the attic of their former home to evaluate the monetary price of their possessions and the existential cost of their choices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 29, 1968 | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

...PRICE is another leaf from Arthur Miller's family album, bound with concern for matters of responsibility and irresponsibility. Pat Hingle and Arthur Kennedy play two brothers who, after 16 years, meet in the attic of their former house to thrash out the price to be paid for old possessions and fresh guilts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 15, 1968 | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

...PRICE is another leaf from Arthur Miller's family album bound with concern for matters of responsibility and irresponsibility. Pat Hingle and Arthur Kennedy play two brothers who, after 16 years, meet in the attic of their former house to thrash out the price to be paid for old possessions and ever fresh guilts and frustrations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 8, 1968 | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

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