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...original cast means Jim Garner, 39, a Tennessee-born ex-radio actor and program director, who scored another smash success last season in the title role of Atlanta's production of MacBird. His is a deft caricature of Lester Maddox as a bland, eupeptic nincompoop given to chats with God. Dressed in blue knee pants and jacket, a Buster Brown collar and a big red tie, Garner prances blithely across the stage, wagging his head, whistling his sibilants, letting his tongue loll inanely between parted lips. The portrayal produces whoops of delighted recognition from audiences, who know the original...
Assembled by a crew of international experts, this examination of whales and whaling in many ages and many waters should be blubbery and boring. Instead, it is one of the best organized and stylish big books of the year. The illustrations, including some deft Japanese watercolors, inevitably include scenes of indescribable carnage, but more often they illuminate more attractive aspects of the whale's world or the whaleman's work and art. The Whale covers everything from Ambergris to Zooplankton, but has no index-for which some editor should be harpooned...
...firmly. "And I am the present. I am a sensitized creature viewing the world, and this is my statement on it." If his caricatures testify to a caustic intelligence, his watercolors reveal the telltale heart. A Brooklyn boy, Levine often visited his father's dress factory, and his deft, murkily lit watercolors of those scenes show that he remembers them fondly and well. He also spent many happy hours at Coney Island, and his sparkling yet dreamily poetic sketches recapture the sleepy magic of glinting waves, roller coasters and bulging bathers...
...DEATH OF BESSIE SMITH and THE AMERICAN DREAM, by Edward Albee, are caustic comic strips of the American scene. In Theater 1969's deft revivals, Rosemary Murphy is chilling as the coldly hysterical nurse of Bessie Smith, while Sudie Bond is endearingly shrill as the Grandma of Dream...
...polite," she says complacently, "even if it killed you." Living in a world of Satsuma bowls and family portraits, she nonetheless bravely jousts with the local mineowners, predictably besting them all. Through a shrewd financial maneuver, she forces them to pay their delinquent school taxes. Conveniently deaf, socially deft and totally domineering, she admits to only one slight fear-of hospitals. But she rises to any occasion, especially if it turns out to be a family funeral...