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...worst, the creature's sting produces mutants: witness the work of David Gilhooly, 38. Gilhooly does pottery frogs; rafts of them, dressed up as Mao Tse Toad, posing as the Gautama Buddha or smothering-deep social commentary, this-beneath piles of super market produce. This kind of sensibility, which surfaces in the weaker patches of Arneson's work as well, is meant to be disarmingly ironical...
...Othello imaginable, laurence Olivier once complained while rehearsing his own exhasting Othello that the part was all climaxes. Jones sadly pretends they don't exist, as if rising to one would obligate him to go for them all. He enters with great dignity, immense and unthreatening grandfatherly, a solemn Buddha. His words seem to wigh as much as he does--they come out undifferentiated, as if he'd learned them phonetically (tough this is preferable to his occasional bursts of temper, when he speaks swiftly and unintelligibly). His vision of Eden in Karen Dotrice's ghoulishly starved, black-lipped Desdemona...
...goes to India to secure new sup plies of iron for Darius and then to far-off Cathay (China), where he is usually treated as a slave instead of an ambassador. His peripatetic existence throws him constantly into the presence of the powerful and influential. He meets, among others, Buddha, Confucius, an ar ray of Indian mystics and holy men, Pericles, Thucydides, Sophocles. He knows people who knew Pythagoras and Aeschylus. During his last years in Athens, Cyrus hires a young mason to repair a wall. His name is Socrates...
When he launches into one of his droll, deadpan stories, Brady's Buddha-like face tries to conceal an impish grin, with all the success of a novice poker player hiding a royal flush. He relishes answering questions by formulating quotable one-liners and piling adjectives upon metaphors. Occasionally, when he crosses the line from irrepressibility to irreverence, Brady gets into trouble. Once, aboard the campaign plane as it flew over a Louisiana forest fire, he gleefully shouted: "Killer trees! Killer trees!" The reference to Reagan's campaign gaffe about the contribution of trees to air pollution grounded...
...Buddha proclaimed the same truth-without the benefit of modern methods for torturing laboratory animals -more than 2,500 years...