Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hear. He redeems himself through a sort of Wagnerian metamorphosis in which he firs thinks of himself as Theseus, then realizes that the Countess (splendidly sung by a young newcomer, Soprano Cynthia Clarey) is his real-life Ariadne after all Ariadne is a delightful romance, and a the final curtain last week, the audience responded with long applause and bravos. Sharing the reception onstage was Musgrave, who had spent the evening on the podium and was now outsmiling everyone. -William Bender...
...other performances are fairly good too, but Short Eyes can't always camouflage its origins as a one-set play: there are too many theatrical monologues that stop the movie dead, and there is a forced climax that is almost a parody of third act curtain scenes. Director Robert M. Young (Nothing but a Man) does, however, convey the authentic pain in Pinero's script, and it really stings...
...first reading, this new chapter in what Poet Robert Lowell has called "my verse autobiography" seems anticlimactic, a retelling of what took place after the curtain dropped. For Lizzie and Harriet and The Dolphin, both published in 1973, took Lowell through the termination of his second marriage and the beginning of his third. The poetry in those two paired volumes was only infrequently up to Lowell's best, but the sustained drama of the situation-and the poet's vivid evocations of both anguish and exhilaration-provided enough momentum to carry even weak poems along...
...curtain dropped on her career, Adela Holzer. 43, played out her self-scripted role with aplomb. She even managed to maintain her poise after she was indicted last week in New York State Supreme Court on 137 counts of larceny and falsifying records. "I don't wear dark glasses when I went to be booked," she told TIME Correspondent Mary Cronin in her heavily accented English. "Everything will be done openly as 1 have led my life." With first-nighter enthusiasm, she gushed over the mug shots taken as she was booked, pronouncing them "the best. I have short...
...starts by passing around photos of his dead fiancee for general approbation. As a catalytic agent full of "power of positive thinking" jargon, he soon reduces everyone either to tears or to hysterics. With blithe incomprehension, he unmasks torpedoed marriages, a joyless adulteress (Dale Hodges), blasted careers, lace-curtain carnage...