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...would have devised, following the lead of the ancient Greek exodos, the grandly impressive (and wordless) epilogue, within which the story itself is a flashback--thereby imparting a new form and focus to the finished product. No-one but Welles could have thought up the settings for the drunken brawl and the killing of Roderigo. Welles' direction and camera work are virtuosic throughout: his untiring inventiveness is ever apparent; and he is a master of black-and-white, from a close-up of part of a white robe through all manner of chiaroscuro to a totally blackened screen. Indeed...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Othello | 2/7/1956 | See Source »

...Have You Seen Her Legs?" Matters reached a definite crisis last June 12, when the Randalls and Gross staged a brawl. Yolaine Randall claims that Sol kicked and beat her; Sol said his father-in-law pushed him around; Gross insisted that Sol had asked him for $15,000 as his price for a divorce. At any rate, a police radio car soon pulled up to the marquee of the Century. Sol lingered long enough to pick up two books for cell reading: a cookbook, and How to Make Marriage Successful. When he got outside, he found that his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Poor Schnook | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...Guerreiro, 32, whose 25-year-old wife ran away with the old doctor a few weeks ago. Crowed Dr. Quadros, clearly the victor: "That woman is mine, and she will remain mine!" Muttered Guerreiro: "He can have that obscenity!" Sad-eyed Governor Quadros dismissed the street brawl as "none of my business," but he saw to it that his embarrassingly spry father was quietly nudged out of his interim seat in the state legislature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 6, 1956 | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...rhubarbs kept Olympic diplomats exercised. The Soviet's state-subsidized "amateurs" tried some gamesmanship, hinted that Canadian hockey players were pros. Everyone wanted to start first in the men's giant slalom, before the course was all cut up. An Italian-German hockey game ended in a brawl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: For the Glory of Sport | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...some fine lyric poetry ("Come live with me and be my love"), a long narrative poem (Hero and Leander), and four superb poetic dramas: Tamburlaine, Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta and Edward II. A militant atheist, in flight from arrest, he was killed at 29 during a drunken brawl in a riverside tavern near London, probably a political victim of Queen Elizabeth's Secret Service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 30, 1956 | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

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