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...brisk playfulness of Brian Murray's direction somewhat masks the vein of melancholy that runs through Anouilh's best characters. Their gaiety is inverted mourning. They suffer with a quip on their lips while stretched on a rack that is the distance between the way things are and the way they want them to be. "T.E.Kalem
IFVENICE IS sinking into the sea, or dissolving into polluted air, or becoming uninhabitable because of its odors, it would have been hard to have guessed so in the brisk days of early September, as the city hosted the annual Giornate del Cinema Italiano-- "the Birthday of Italian Cinema...
Meschers, 1951, was one result. Originally a scene of green pine trees and blue sea, it became a brisk mosaic of slender, bladelike forms set with cunning ambiguity between figure and field, in a matrix of dark ultramarine. A very "European" painting in its reference to the sharp edges and rich color of Matisse's paper cutouts, it is less so in its novel use of concealed chance...
Director Edwin Sherin's stage movement is brisk and effective, but there is no wildness in it, no sense of irrational forces fiercely at play. Among the rest of the cast, only Rene Auberjonois as Edgar rises above rep company competence. In his mad scenes he finds and illuminates the heart of the darkness Shakespeare was trying to penetrate. If his fellows had his verve and imagination, this Lear might have been more than just another turn by a gifted, but perhaps overly ambitious, star...
Sampson's book may be blemished in places by inaccuracy and skewed judgment. ITT has released a 24-page rebuttal which argues that Sampson colored many of his conclusions by quoting sources out of context. Nevertheless, his book is a brisk narrative that raises fundamental questions about the relationships between international business and governments. If Sampson has no final answer, it is because the multinational and conglomerate phenomena are still so new that, beyond profits and losses, corporations do not yet fully comprehend the effects of what they are doing. · R.Z. Sheppard