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Chairman of the Rockefeller group, John A. Beckett, a professor at the University of New Hampshire, said in an interview that he has seen polls that show that a Rockefeller write-in effort could come close to or even surpass Romney, whose name is on the ballot...
...sensuous and intellectual. Apart from being Pirandello's greatest work, Henry IV is a fascinating precursor of the entire theater of the absurd-the anguish over existence in Sartre and Camus, the guerrilla warfare against ossified language and the mass mind in lonesco, the bleak, alienated vision of Beckett, the sense of man eternally acting a role in Genet, and the use of the stage as a self-contained universe in Pinter. In a towering display of the actor's craft, Kenneth Haigh confers unbrooked, unhinged regality on the title character while coiling the inner man into...
...seeing Broadway for the first time in a bold, resourceful production that is the opening repertory offering of the APA-Phoenix's current Manhattan season. Ghelderode may at last begin to strike roots in the same theatrical and intellectual soil that has proved hospitable to Beckett, lonesco and Genet...
Jorge Luis Borges is 68 and has been publishing poetry, "fictions," and essays since the early twenties. North American readers have discovered the Argentine's magic only in the last few years. The international audience began gathering in 1961, when Borges and Samuel Beckett shared the International Publishers' Prize...
...moments of explosively funny comedy-notably, a court-martial scene in the desert that rivals the Red Queen's interrogation of Alice for sheer illogic. In a generally first-rate cast, Jack MacGowran is outstanding as a mad soldier who could have stepped from the plays of Beckett, while Crawford, as the silly subaltern, alternates hilariously between villainy and vanity. Despite its pictorial audacity and quirky humor, the picture is less impressive as a film against war than as a war against film-the kind of red-blooded Hollywood spectacular that glorifies battle. Nonetheless, Lester's irrepressible stylistic...