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Despite their enthusiasm, Lenox Hill physicians caution that the technique is experimental. With Griintzig and a team of San Francisco researchers led by Dr. Richard Myler, they are working to refine the equipment and determine which patients could benefit from the procedure. Equally important, the doctors are trying to assess...
THE RECENT SOLO WORK Lazarus, which followed the unexceptional Swan Lake, was nothing less than awesome. From the moment Tony Catanzaro's Lazarus emerged from the yellow light of the tomb, crouched like some deformed insect, the struggle of form against space and life against death riveted the audience. Catanzaro...
Even that ambitious passage from his 1947 essay A New Refutation of Time contains a self-effacing shuffle. Borges disarms that ancient foe, ineffability, by questioning his own existence. He has done so in dozens of fanciful tales bearing such tantalizing labels as Death and the Compass, Funes, the Memorious...
Moving as this story often is, the film suffers from compression. In the effort to confine the action to a single day, the screenwriters lean on stagy plot contrivances that are endemic to old-fashioned plays. Mastroianni's performance adds another synthetic note: this fine actor works hard, but...
It is to director Norman Ayrton's credit that throughout most of the two and a half hours of War and Peace, the historian's illusion of control is sustained. By coloring the play's war scenes with two large slide screens that at times trace Napoleon's progress across...