Word: duncan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...struggle of conscience and denial goes on beneath his bald pate. Then the crown covers that spot and all sign of the saint is gone. Fear itself takes over the command, but with no less skill or strength than made Macbeth a hero in suppressing the revolt against Duncan. Especially fine is the scene where the king persuades and instructs the two murderers concerning the death of Banquo and his son whose end is needed, he explains, "Masking the business from the common eye for sundry weighty reasons." The two identically costumed soldiers are reminiscent of Rosencranz and Guildenstern...
...bawdy drunken doorkeeper, who might however try to get his lines out from under his intoxication more cleanly, and in the elaborate staging. The setting is not particularly inspired, but it works, in such scenes as Macbeth's slow progress up the stairs which enclose the stage front to Duncan's chamber, or the massing of figures in the several group scenes. And the special effects people do very well with difficult material: Banquo is as ghostly as anyone could ask in a green light, posed behind Macbeth's chair like Christ in The Last Supper. And the procession...
JANET AND STEPHEN DUNCAN San Francisco...
...Angeles, Bureau Chief Richard Duncan assigned reporters to sound the public's temper throughout the Western states. In addition, Duncan conducted interviews himself, questioning among others a cattleman, a small-town banker, a former Nixon Administration official and Duncan's own daughter-about the sentiments of her eighth-grade history class...
...Angeles Bureau Chief Richard L. Duncan is responsible for 13 states stretching from Texas to Montana and west to Alaska and Hawaii. He reports...