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Shot after shot in Strangers defies mental erasure: grey, panoramic views of Manhattan steaming like a witch's cauldron; two boys slugging it out in a hysteria of violence in one of those brick-strewn empty lots that pockmark the city like bomb craters; a woman's clothed and rigid body floating just below the surface in a bathtub, her open eyes transfixed in a death agony. Strangers dishonestly suggests that it is reporting the plight of a typical Puerto Rican family; in fact, few households would witness such a concoction of swirling agonies in a lifetime...
...simultaneously, Papp found himself in another cauldron. As the new theater's dedicatory play, he had picked The Merchant of Venice-and the New York Board of Rabbis loudly protested. In the part of Shylock, said the rabbis, Shakespeare had perpetrated "a distortion and defamation of our people and our faith.'' Through WCBS-TV, the entire city would have a chance to see the performance, and that was what bothered the rabbis most. "The television audience will be a mass audience," they argued. "It will include impressionable young people and teenagers, and many of its adults would...
Mercedes Taxis. Though he has many times "circumnavigated the cauldron," as he describes his swings through Europe, Gunther can still be absurdly misled-and misleading. The fact that almost every taxi in West Berlin is a Mercedes-Benz is presented as a sign of prosperity; in fact, as Germany's only diesel-engined car, the Mercedes is favored by cab owners purely for economy. On West Berlin's city council, Adenauer's Christian Democrats are not "the opposition." as Gunther reports, but in coalition with Willy Brandt's Socialists. Benelux currencies are no more or less...
...handle ears. For most men, the solitary ritual of the tub means a chance to escape for a while from the cares and worries of the world outside-but not for William Henry Mauldin, editorial cartoonist of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In Mauldin's cauldron, the heat creates light-in the form of inspiration for his drawing board. The water of his bath is roiled with national and international crises, and in the rising steam swarm the wraithlike figures of politicians, statesmen and world leaders. While his skin turns lobster-red and he blisters his insides with coffee...
...scenes with the three witches (Kim Hunter, Carla Huston, and Kathryn Loder) are properly eerie; and the cauldron magically appears and disappears. There has, however, been some tampering with the assignment of the apparitions' lines...