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Updike's novels, though very much distinct from each other, were each rooted in the past. The Poorhouse Fair, though ostensibly set in New Jersey, was really drawn from the old folks' home near the Updike house in Shillington, and told a slight, whispered story of the accumulating sense of pointlessness among the inmates. From there, Updike leaped two generations to Rabbit, Run, a quietly savage novel about a former high school basketball star who simply runs away from wife, child, job and the suffocating box of senseless moral obligations. It was a flawlessly turned portrait...
...underrated: his hip-swinging set the style for performance, and the hard-driving toughness of Hound Dog and Treat Me Nice spawned a whole generation of imitations, from Fabian, Sal Mineo, and Joey Castle to Conrad Birdie. Only the Everly Brothers can match Elvis's dual line of songs--distinct yet composed of the same ingredients--that both define the pinnacle. Don't Be Cruel, Blue Suede Shoes, and Too Much led down to Teddybear, Wear My Ring, and on to Little Sister, Return to Sender, and Devil in Disguise (one of the few masterpieces in the recently-released Elvis...
...worthy. Charles Ruggles, as a big-game hunter, stumbles over his own name convincingly; May Robson plays the dowager matron with a haughtiness that is classic; George, the dog, comes across as throughly repellent; and the two leopards--there are two leopards--achieve the remarkable feat of defining characters distinct from each other, a tribute to professional animals of uncommon talent or to the director who knows his way around them...
Hodgkin's and three kindred diseases may appear to be distinct entities at certain stages, but in fact they blend into each other. So, Dr. Nobler declared, the thing to do now is to ignore these distinctions and get on with the supervoltage treatment. That way, ten-year survival rates for Hodgkin's patients treated early have been pushed as high as 68% and five-year rates to 80% at some centers...
This technique of direction, however, requires incredibly strong acting to keep the styles and their effects distinct. The principal problems of the Agassiz Cherry Orchard are the disturbing inconsistencies of characterization as actors fail to exploit the peculiar logic of their styles in moments of crisis and dip into the grab bag of general histrionics to carry them through. After Ken Tigar recovered from some painful timing slips in the first act he gave a striking portrayal of a serf turned manager. His nagging, casually enunciated, and loud voice move against the general strength of Marilyn Pitzele's Ranevskaya...