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MAME. This musical comedy has the shine of professionalism and the sharpness of a finely honed skate blade. Angela Lansbury is graciously glossy as Patrick Dennis' most celebrated relative...
...press coverage of his trial, most newsmen scorned all suggestions that they abide by any formal set of rules laid down by courts or bar associations to govern crime reporting. Their own good judgment, they insisted almost unanimously, was all that was needed. Last week the jointly owned Toledo Blade and Toledo Times, which the Ohio Bar Association had commended for quiet coverage of the Sheppard trial, broke ranks and announced the adoption of a code of ethics. "If we're going to have policies," said Blade Editor James C. MacDonald, "we'll have our own policies...
...scourging the countryside with fire, flood and poison. Moviegoers may take it or leave it; but those who stick around will probably want to amuse themselves by counting phallic symbols. Snakes and falling timber abound, and Mademoiselle's metaphor for the act of love is an ax blade buried in lumber. Xenophobia, pyromania and sundry aberrations are touched upon, while Genet catalogues the destructive power of Woman. On the night before the woodsman is beaten to death by the villagers who suspect him of her crimes, Moreau leads her victim through rainswept meadows in one of the longest...
Major Efforts. Along with more pottery, the jackpots include a 1-in.-long bronze pin for fastening garments, and a blackened iron knife blade some 5 in. long. University of Wales archaeologists conducting the dig found new ramparts within the older pre-Roman walls. Farther up the hillside they also found postholes 1 ft. in diameter-unusually large for the time-that may indicate the site of Arthur's mead hall, plus grain-storage pits and burnt remains from another timber structure...
...blade is sharpened on a grindstone, Genet has defined himself against society. In a world where many people can scarcely explain what they do, a crime is at least a visible and dramatic act. Genet is the total theatrician in that he revels in making illusion indistinguishable from reality. Are the generals, bishops and judges in the brothel of The Balcony more real when they put on those costumes to gratify their sexual quirks or when they assume the same roles to govern the state? In Genet's drama, costumes not only make the man, they rule the world...