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If Marceau's art has an autumnal seriousness, his artistry bubbles with Gallic springtime vivacity. He mixes sweetness with strength. His head wobbles like a flower on a too-slender stalk, but his feet are sprung steel on points when he dances his soundless ballets. He is a theatrical...
The Tempest is not King Lear. The Reivers is not The Sound and the Fury. Critics hot for pessimistic reality may find this autumnal story a retreat into anecdotal escapism. More important, readers who know the body of Faulkner's work will miss, as they have in much of...
Two things, however, should be clear. One: Iris Murdoch is one of the most skillful writers around. Two: if she goes on exploring autumnal amorousness as she has. the word sexagenarian is likely to take on new connotations.
Williams is an electrifying scenewright, because his people are the sort who make scenes, explosively and woundingly. In Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Big Daddy jerks the crutch out from under his son Brick's arm and sends him sprawling in agony; a few minutes later Brick kicks...
Kennedy's habit of taking guests to the White House by helicopter nearly ran into a snag with Liberia's Tubman, who is distrustful of planes and came to the U.S. by boat. But Kennedy aides tactfully suggested that Tubman might like to see autumnal Washington from the...