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Fashion has at last become the great leveler among women. How clever of the designers to copy the rags of Calcutta for spring styles. Now all women world wide will look equally ugly and impoverished...
...minor work, certainly, but luminous still, Satyajit Ray's The Middleman concerns compromise, the collapse of a class, the exigencies of desperation. For such large themes, the story itself is notably modest. A young college graduate who lives in Calcutta with his father, brother and sister cannot find a job. After almost a year of unemployment, Somnath (gently played by Pradip Mukherjee) defies the traditions of his Brahman background and goes into small business, hustling everything from stationery to industrial whitening, buying low, selling high, pocketing the difference. He is called, politely, a "middleman." Somnath learns soon enough that...
...following year, on the very day Mrs. Gandhi declared a state of emergency and detained thousands of her opponents without trial, Fernandes went underground. For almost a year, until his arrest in Calcutta last June, he traveled the country disguised as a Sikh, with a flowing beard and turban. Gradually, he organized a resistance movement, published a clandestine mimeographed newsletter and-according to the prosecution-staged a number of bombings. If found guilty, he will face a sentence of life imprisonment...
...having been quilled in the 17th century by the Earl of Rochester (Tynan unearthed parts of it in the archives of the Victoria and Albert Museum). Other notable contributors include 19th century French Symbolist Poet Paul Verlaine, French Playwright Eugene Ionesco and Tynan himself. As director, Tynan chose another Calcutta alumnus, Clifford Williams, formerly of the Royal Shakespeare Company...
Last week, after two years of preparation and backed by a budget of $200,000, Carte Blanche finally opened. What the raised curtain revealed, reported TIME Correspondent Lawrence Malkin, was some parts that could be called cousins of Calcutta and others that amounted to "a granddaddy of a snappy nightclub revue, liberated to let a lot of old-fashioned smut happily hang out." In short, Carte Blanche works best when the 14-member cast has its clothes on. That turns out to be most of the time. True, the opening scene has them emerging frontally naked from behind shiny, plastic...