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...sort of formal palaver, with the granman--grand man, the paramount chief--and his council, before we wander about. We gather in his hut with the village leaders. He is a compact man, with a slightly sad expression--sort of a solemn Redd Foxx--and a tuft of white beard clinging to his chin. During the krutu, one never addresses him directly, nor does he speak directly to others. All questions and responses go through the bassias, high-ranking assistants who serve as intermediaries, a custom that prolongs the meetings but also gives them a formality that suggests authentic goodwill...
...subject of much speculation--could it possibly have been to build up the myth even more? At the end of July that year, Dylan was thrown from his motorcycle, breaking his neck and going into total seclusion until November 1967. He returned with a haircut and a beard, releasing the calm and far less angry John Wesley Harding. 1966 seemed like a different world, a different life, and so began the myth...
Staring out from their photographs, they are the archetypal tycoons: one a steely-eyed Scot with a spade-shaped white beard; another a craggy, Ichabod Crane look-alike; the third a fat cat in striped pants with a watch chain strung across an ample paunch...
When I think of Edward Albee, I think of the psychological explorations of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. The first act of his last play, The Seascape, fulfills that generalization remarkably well. It opens with a married couple bickering. Charlie (John Beard) and Nancy (Nicole Charbonneau), just like the pair in Woolf--they are past middle age and frustrated by the stagnancy into which their lives have fallen. Nancy is devastated by it and Charlie is burdened by her insistence that he empathize with her misery. Soon another couple arrives whose own personal issues mirror and illuminate those...
...contrast in character between the two couples is exaggerated in performance. Charbonneau and Beard--as Nancy and Charlie--tend to put so much effort into their dispositions that they seem unrealistic. Nancy's sarcasm is so affected that it seems sincere, and Charlie's complacency is too noticeable to be the subtle characterization it ought to be. He looks quite like a little boy in adult's clothing, wearing shoes a little too big for his personality. Nancy instead has a little girl's saccharine, irritating voice inside a matronly visage. On the other hand, Leslie and Sarah--Kelleher...