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Playing on this sentiment, Lon Nol's government is continuing its strident campaign against the 500,000-member Vietnamese community. The drive has proved to be the new government's strongest-if crudest-rallying point. At present, Vietnamese residents of the capital are allowed to leave their homes only between...
Unfortunately, the monumental weariness which Genet so effectively conveys has no compelling cathartic quality: The Blacks, like The Balcony and The Screens. is structured around a series of totally static ritual ceremonies. which tread lightly on the borderline between the crudest naturalism and the most cerebral symbolism. Harold Scott, director of The Blacks and recipient of the Obie Award for an off-Broadway performance in Genet's Deathwatch, has resolved the latent tensions in Genct's material in the direction of naturalism-obviating some of the ludicrous pitfalls which plagued Joseph Strick in his attempt to film The Balcony...
...complexity of Sorrows' sustained mood and action seems at first to be betrayed by its ending. Cortez, pursued by the shadow of Satan, flees to his true love. One thinks this is a cheap trick to get them back together and achieve a happy ending. It substitutes the crudest of cardboard religious symbolism for serious moral change. But the really cheap ending would have had Cortez repent and return of his own will. Force is required to return this malcontent to the women who loves...
...qualities, there could hardly be a better incarnation of Satan than Basso Norman Treigle, 42. Small, skinny, seemingly naked, Treigle flashed through the role like a black-voiced cobra. Plunging from profundo depths to baritonal heights, his voice remained huge and perfectly focused through one of the crudest bass roles ever written. "I can't say I really like this Mefisto," Treigle said afterward. "I think of myself as an actor, not a singer, and it isn't an interesting role. I just keep dashing out and gutting...
...such varied events as the sla lom, jumping and drag racing. Though many of the competitions like to bill themselves as the "largest," "richest," "most unique" or simply "world's foremost," Alaska's annual Midnight Sun 600 Snowmobile Race is indisputably the world's coldest and crudest...