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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
...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
...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...
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...
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