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...slashes, stabs, splashes and streams of lush color. His women look as ripe as Tiepolo's baroque matrons, but they are fully clothed and mighty ugly, with ox eyes, balloon bosoms, pointy teeth and vaguely voracious little smiles. He pictures them in no particular setting, but somehow they convey the impression of being terribly tough, big-city, mid-20th-century dames...
Williams has created a phantasmagoria of brutality, treachery, corruption, has doused it with sex, punctuated it with farce, dyed it in melodrama. Doubtless the play is at times revolting because it sets out to convey the author's own revulsion; and Camino Real is perhaps excessively pessimistic in reaction against Williams' previous Rose Tattoo, with its factitious "affirmation." But very excessive it is-and not only excessively black, but excessively purple. Camino Real lacks philosophic or dramatic progression (on that score, it might claim the dead-endness of a wasteland), but it also lacks all discipline and measure...
Will you please see that the enclosed check for $5 reaches the widow & children of Pang Wha II . . . ? If you will, please convey to her the hope that she will learn soon that the stupidity and evil she has learned to associate with some Americans is not true...
...policy by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who traveled 10,000 miles, through seven nations in ten days (see INTERNATIONAL). Dulles was also eminently successful in drawing signs of new unity out of Western Europe's bickering diversity. In capital after capital he managed to convey the urgent need for action, based not on U.S. threats but on an overriding identity of interests among all free nations...
Mobilist Alexander Calder saw his "prisoner" as two black triangles pierced with a spear. Philadelphia's Wharton Esherick used a pair of leaning monoliths to convey his idea. Others showed a tiny figure trapped, fly-like, in a conical web of wires; shapeless wooden chunks joined by metal bars; a writhing metal mass with sharp edges and a pair of protruding wings. Only one winner gave his prisoner a human form...