Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SAVAGES is a doughnut--there's plenty around the edges but not too much in the middle. Sometimes flimsy plots demand a suspension of belief too great for the audience to bear; in this case the leaden weight of an overdrawn script buries the dedicated acting jobs that try to save the show. Christopher Hampton's Savages, unfortunately, is more fundamentally flawed, for it founders when its focus--a Brazilian Indian tribe on the verge of extinction--obscures or perhaps just misses entirely all the other elements in this would-be "major statement." Socialism, repression, guilt and the excesses...
...vehicle supposed to bear this burden is the kidnapping and murder of a minor British embassy official named West (well-played by Trevor Barnes). Throughout the play he is the detached observer of Indians either viciously slaughtered or "civilized." West dies eventually--killed for no reason by Carlos (Jeff Horwitz), an otherwise affable guerrilla, in a mockery of the Marxist's own vision of justice...
Bishop Topel has always turned his salary back to the diocese. But ten years ago, after Vatican II emphasized the need for the Catholic Church to bear witness to poverty and downplay priestly perquisites, trappings and titles generally, Bishop Topel during a prayer retreat "suddenly got the conviction that God wanted me to move into a smaller house. I wanted to live like the poor, and that's the way it's been ever since." He even manages to turn over to the needy some money from his Social Security check...
...building. He is close with his money but has unwound enough in the past few years to buy a Cadillac, several color TV sets and motorcycles for each of his three oldest sons. This year he even treated himself to a two-week trip hunting elk, bear and bighorn sheep in the Canadian Yukon. Pat sounds apologetic about his worldly goods and pleasures: 'Since the kids have gotten older we've bought a lot of things we really didn't need ?but that is one of the reasons we've been working hard...
...father Roswell, who died last November at 79, is remembered internationally as the corn grower who played host to Nikita Khrushchev on his U.S. tour in 1959. But on the prairies Roswell is remembered as a developer, with Henry Wallace, of hybrid corn. David, a blunt-featured bear of a man who graduated from Stanford ('50), is promoting innovation on his own. Among the techniques that he and his family have pushed...