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...latter-day equivalent of Greek tragedy, Kott recommends, as a salient example, the spectacle of a paralyzed man confronting a woman half-buried alive: Samuel Beckett's Happy Days, "the final version of the Prometheus myth." Nor does Kott fail to provide the unerringly apt caption-Sophocles' dread-filled line, "Nothing surpasses not being born...
Terry Valenzuela of Adams beat Scott Beckett of Radcliffe at 135 Ibs. in a close, hard-fought contest. Valenzuela and Beckett split the first two rounds, but Valenzuela's endless lunging jabs got to Beckett in the third...
...FRIDAY: Beckett. (1964) Peter O'Toole was the only actor ever to win two Oscars for the same role, Henry II, in this film and in "The Lion in Winter." Richard Burton portrays the Archbishop of Canterbury in this intelligent and energetic history. CH. 7. 11:30 p.m. Color...
Imagine life as a sneaker-shod Dionysian ballet, reeling from the Marx Brothers to Samuel Beckett, from Madison Avenue to the groves of academe, from the incontinence of diaper days to the impotence of a palsied hand of poker in an old folks' death house. That will give you some brief notion of Dr. Hero. Yes, the central figure is our old friend and sometime bore, Everyman; but dismiss your initial, legitimate worries. This Everyman is no gullible Candide looking for the best of all possible worlds, no dour Diogenes straining for a glimpse of an honest...
...casts of Landscape and Silence are each excellent, the more so considering the difficulty of the plays. Following Samuel Beckett, Pinter has stripped away all that is unnecessary, so that every word--and more importantly every silence--is crucial. Indeed, the high quality of these plays is best found in the intensity of their silences...