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...heirs of Banquo, foretold by the three witches, march with a stately heraldic tread across a narrow catwalk that spans the upper rear stage like a suspension bridge. In these and other scenes, the director groups and separates her players with a painter's eye Individual playgoers may cavil at some of the liberties that Caldwell takes with Shakespeare, but few could deny that she represents a fresh, colorful and audacious directorial presence in the theater. -By T.E. Kalem

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Power and Lust | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

...oddballs to staff a Tennessee Williams repertory company. Huston's only lapses are a few purple flashback sequences that accomplish little beyond allowing the di rector to appear onscreen as Hazel's grandfather. Still, those moviegoers who have a taste for Wise Blood are not going to cavil about flaws. It is enough to ride the wild imaginative waves of this singular artistic adventure. -Frank Rich

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Sound and the Fury | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...really gotta learn how to stop just before Doc Severinson and the NBC Orchestra start playing "Tea for Two." And you don't recover by screaming out "Oxnard! Oxnard! Oxnard!" in a crowded theater until you're blue in the face, either. So my only cavil is with 14 scenes--at least seven too many, and each one of those remaining about four puns too long...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: The 130th Clone | 2/25/1978 | See Source »

Well, I happen to know of about six or seven people out there who think my column isn't vomit, although I think it is vomit, but artistic vomit, and you don't cavil with artistic vomit. (Vomit for art's sake, you know...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROCK | 3/17/1977 | See Source »

Suggestions: Read the Real Paper Read Crawdaddy. Read Rolling Stone. Read Harry's column. Don't cavil with art. Lay off, OK? Later. Another Pseudonym for Rich

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROCK | 3/17/1977 | See Source »

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