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TIME'S cynical theater reviewer is not only deaf to The Sound of Music, he must also suffer from a basic inability to enjoy some of life's simple pleasures [Nov. 30]. If Mary Martin can ever be "a little too lovable," I want to be there...
Edward Atienza is amusing as old, deaf Don Vasco, and Mario Alcalde and Ellen Madison are appropriately exuberant as Pepe and Rosita. Oliver Smith's set is striking, and the sound effects are both unusual and effective...
...Turning on his wife, Marigold cries "Oh woman, woman, you'll never catch my little Sophy by her hair again, for she has flown away from you!" A paragraph later, Mrs. Marigold commits suicide (the river route). Handkerchiefs must be kept at the ready, for Marigold adopts a deaf-mute girl who is being cuffed and starved by a bestial circus master...
...enthusiasm over regaining Trieste, Rome's bureaucrats floated a national bond issue to help compensate the city for the economic loss it suffered with the departure of the 6,000 U.S. and British troops who had garrisoned the free territory. But since then, Rome has turned a deaf ear to proposals that some of Italy's innumerable state-owned enterprises be moved to Trieste and that the city be granted the privilege of importing raw materials and exporting finished goods duty-free. Triestini complain that Sicilian-born Giovanni Palamara, Italy's prefect in Trieste, shrugs off their...
...William Faulkner. Despite awkwardness, even sloppiness, in the writing, this last installment of the Snopes trilogy (earlier novels: The Hamlet, The Town) remains a smoldering personal testament to the worst in the American South and the worst in man. Edison, by Matthew Josephson. An able biography of the deaf, eccentric, agnostic genius who may not have been the world's greatest inventor, but who had no equal as an inventor-promoter...