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End Products. By comparison, Tillie's life has hardly any fizz at all. Serious, well-trained in sociology, she meets a gimp-legged skirt-chaser and hopeless vulgarian named Pete Seltzer. His public wit runs to doubletalk and the invention of nonsense "end" products: after-shaving mints, dietetic shampoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Whim and Welfscfimerz | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

Ranchman nevertheless pays the extreme penalty-extremely. He dies in the electric chair, in the gas chamber and by gunshot while being hanged. Each time, he is casually resurrected to go on talking, shouting and heckling with the rest of the cast, in the course of which none of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Gut Theater | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

Nice and Decent. "The Deadly Theater" is an all too common experience. One has only to sniff the garbage that piles up on Broadway and London's West End every season. But Brook is interested in subtler forms of deadliness, an anemia that saps Shakespeare as well as silly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Directors: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

Sneaky Monk. When City Opera General Director Julius Rudel asked Corsaro to stage Faust, he got a wild-eyed stare in return. "I loathed Faust," Corsaro admits. "In fact, I've started off by basically disliking every opera that I've done so far. They all seemed like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Outrageous, but Good | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

There remains far too short a space to praise the company, in the style they deserve. Sheila Hart is as always matchless; it is to be regretted that as the mother of Leantio part of her character dies a-borning in the first act and the very strength of her...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: Women Beware Women | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

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