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...theatrical history. Devised by Britain's man-about-the-theater Kenneth Tynan, it sought unabashedly to tap the voyeur market - or rather, that part of it unwilling to get its jollies in a topless go-go bar. Tynan's tease was dressed up with skits by Samuel Beckett, Jules Feiffer and Tennessee Williams, among others, and it was billed as an evening of "elegant erotica." Outraged clerics and unimpressed critics called it other things, but Calcutta ran three years in New York (where it is now being revived) - and it is still running in London where it opened...
Last Monday, 18 undergraduates gathered in Boylston Hall to recite from Beckett, Malcom X, Peter Schaffer and the anonymous author of a Middle English Ballad--among others--in their quest for Harvard's premier prize for oratory prowess...
...crap in his bowels, his putrid liver, leaden legs, rotting teeth, and sparse hair. Perched in his wheelchair, between the park bench and the garbage pail, he seems content to survey the progressive dissolution of others with a complicit smile that might be meant for a slyer old man, Beckett...
...example, a Dutch eccentric named Anton Heyboer, who lives with three women in a small dark barn north of Amsterdam and, the catalogue gravely assures us, "is timeless and unconscious, like an animal." Heyboer's life may have the gray neuralgic minimality of a character in Beckett, and the paintings-schematic outline figures scrawled on a white ground-look negligible. Quite different is the work of a Frenchman, Jean-Olivier Hucleux, who has developed a technique of such extreme verisimilitude as to make nearly all U.S. photo-realism seem clumsy and generalized. His favorite subject is, lit erally, nature...
...INFLUENCE OF Wizard on generations of pinball machines to come can only be guessed at; suffice it to say, it will be vast. For now, all one can do is hail, as Samuel Beckett hailed with unfathomed prescience more than twenty-five years ago, the "system, of singular beauty and simplicity, which consists in saying Bally...