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...strong, scrupulous and thoroughly rewarding revival of Ibsen's A Doll's House now graces off-Broadway. Matching the exquisite delicacy of her features, Claire Bloom moves with emotional assurance from the early phase of the wife as kept puppet to the later phase of the woman who issues an emancipation proclamation to her husband. The larky girlishness of the early Nora is always a bit of a problem, but Miss Bloom manages to be a trifle giddy without appearing inane. As the later Nora, her performance is informed with a grave clarity...
...writes a letter exposing her to her husband. Torvald plays a cravenly abusive blame game with Nora, then, when the threat lifts, wants to go on together as if nothing had happened. But Nora sees her idealistic love shattered. She feels that she has been treated like a doll-child in her father's house and a doll-woman in her husband's. She opts to leave him and her three children in order to forge an independent soul and consciousness in the outer world. The children are inexplicably reduced to two in this production, perhaps...
...identity crisis and yet not past the age of uncertainty." If the authors insights are at times more precious than rare, her message is not. It is meant for those who dig men and the other two Ms and ask only to be out of the doll's house part...
...goodbye-and 5,000 of them came. He dramatized the fact that the Lieutenant Governor is not provided with a car by riding his bicycle seven miles to the state capitol. And he announced some plans for augmenting his income: the manufacture of Lester Maddox wristwatches, a Maddox doll and a Lester-in-the-box that utters the guv's all-purpose expletive: "Phooey...
...Scott Fitzgerald, the ultimate Princetonian, fresh from Metro drinking himself to death just one year after Alice MacGraw was born. Fitzgerald wrote: "People in the East pretend to be interested in how pictures are made, but if you tell them anything, they never see the ventriloquist for the doll. Even the intellectuals, who ought to know better, like to hear about the pretensions, extravagances, and vulgarities?tell them pictures have a private grammar and watch the blank look come into their faces...