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Belgrader will have none of that. In this American Rep production, he leaves the issues in the play to speak for themselves and devotes his energies exclusively to the play's formal frame, tapping on some rotting beams and occasionally taking ax to them. His chosen weapon is extravagant caricature: never was the difference between court and greenwood so violently underscored. Where a straight production might present an orderly, ceremonious court and a rustically relaxed forest, Belgrader gives neither. His court is a Louis XIV anachronism, the women nearly immobile in skirts like giant hat-boxes, the men waving white...
...stands as a crazy metaphor for the world in Kubrick's eyes: the rational progress we make always seems to be a step behind the torture we inflict on the earth and the nuclear apocalypse we plan for. In the end, we will be limping after the future, bloody ax in hand, howling for one more breath of life...
...imagery just as the film starts to thrust toward a climax. In a sequence that reveals Wendy's sexual dominance, she wields a phallic baseball bat at hip level, thrusting it rhythmically in Jack's face as he grins maniacally and moves closer. Only when Jack takes up the ax does his sexual strength return...
...English equivalent of this Russian proverbial saying is "beating one's head against a stone wall." Russia is a land of proverbs. One that could apply to all of Solzhenitsyn's writings: "What has been written with a pen cannot be hacked away with an ax " - Patricia Blake
...other hand, people employed in either homebuilding or automaking, two of the nation's largest industries, are already reeling. In Detroit, where unemployment now stands at over 15% and automakers' sales are running 16.6% below 1979 levels, factory workers and executives are both getting the ax. Chrysler has already laid off over half its factory work force, and is now cutting its white-collar staff to 65% of last year's levels. The number of total employees last week had shrunk from 130,700 a year ago to 89,900. Ford expects to let over...