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...succeeds, Kott implies, he becomes the new tyrant. If he overreaches himself and fails, he becomes a scapegoat. In either case there must be a letting of blood, a climax of cruelty. Sons will devour fathers or fathers will devour sons. Call it cannibalism or call it sacrament, a ritual will take place, and out of that moment of utter darkness there will come a light: the illumination that turns ritual into drama...
...EVENING'S BORING segment comes with the play by Handke, who is now enjoying popularity on the New York stage with his longer and presumably more interesting Kaspar. Here four white figures emerge beneath what appears to be a giant morning glory about to devour the piano. Each announces, "I came into the world..." and begins a work which consists of nothing but confessional sentences beginning with "I." Amid a set that looks like Design Research kindergarten toys, the actors deliver such lines as "I learned to distinguish between nouns and verbs," "I appropriated property in disregard of the general...
...sometimes dispatching both T-and B-cells, sometimes just one variety. T-cells multiply and attack; the foreigners are soon surrounded and isolated by rings of angry lymphocytes that cause inflammation and chemically destroy the invaders. The T-cells may also call up macrophages, large scavenger cells that literally devour and digest foreign cells...
...Theater's production of Macbeth, raising new shudders in the definition of gore, new questions about the existence of the supernatural-and new developments in the black art of scaring up tickets. As Macbeth, Anthony Hopkins is a restless animal, hopelessly possessed, feeding on eerie fears until they devour him. But soft, who is that lady he was seen with? That lady whose steely resolve disintegrates in guilt, who seizes her crucifix like a dagger, spits venomously on its tip, and invokes the spirits of night to fill her with direst cruelty...
...tangle with one of the few really good ones in its League opener against Columbia and the Lions' All-Ivy Don Jackson. If Harvard's defense doesn't succeed in penetrating the Columbia pass blocking, as it did last year, Jackson and his best receiver, Jeme Parks, may devour Harvard's slow pass coverage. Restic said the Columbia game "will pretty much tell you which...