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Negatives--Glenda Jackson (Charlotte Corday in the Peter Brook Marat-Sade) is in it. At the CHARLES, 195 Cambridge...
Negatives--Glenda Jackson (Charlotte Corday in the Peter Brook Marat-Sade) is in it. At the CHARLES, 195 Cambridge...
Fearsome Specter. More drastic were the objections of a few eminent cardiologists at the San Francisco meeting. New Orleans' Dr. George E. Burch, the college's new president, joined Los Angeles' Dr. Eliot Corday and Manhattan's Dr. Simon Dack in calling for at least a three-month moratorium on heart transplants. The college's outgoing president, Philadelphia's Dr. William Likoff, announced a conference of leading physicians, lawyers and theologians, to be held late this month in Bethesda, Md., to discuss the legal, ethical and practical aspects of transplants. And then there...
...they get what they want. Marat, stabbed by a spastic Charlotte Corday (Glenda Jackson), lies weltering in his tub of blood. The director of the asylum and his guests politely applaud the conclusion of the piece; but the inmates, identifying with their roles, run suddenly amuck. Fighting, biting, ripping, raping, they swarm over the guards and the guests, they leap upon the camera and drag the spectator down into the delirium of a revolution that is suddenly no longer there and then but here, now, always...
...Fields), the mad priest of the insurrection, bursts in straitjacketed and has to be crushed. Deperret (Joseph Hindy), an "erotomaniac" whom Brook equipped with a perpetual erection, urges Charlotte to return to Caen; he forgets himself and nearly rapes her. Sade is whipped -- in London and New York with Corday's flowing hair, since the decency laws forbade public flagellation -- and here with a lash of six flat leather tails. Marat sinks into darkness and confronts the ghosts of his past, who slander his childhood, and Voltaire and Lavoisier, who mock his scientific achievements -- all played by a writhing tableau...