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...Jackson's fans shout their "Right on, Jesse!" and "Tell it, brother!" as he pitches for the current Breadbasket programs. He calls it "hustling time," and he sells pride as well as products. "I am somebody," he chants. "I am somebody," comes the crowd's ringing echo...
From the chasm an echo...
...first New York preview, The Liberation of L.B. Jones provoked a brief fistfight between a Negro youth and a white man. This response - which could echo at theaters around the country - accurately reflects the film: frustrating, morally ugly, and in the end as banal as evil itself...
...more remarkable considering the musical abilities of its members. Versatility is a distinguishing, and a vital, characteristic of The Band. The group plays 15 instruments proficiently, and employs as many as ten in concert. The instruments are played without gimmicks-there is no fuzz bass, no reverb, no echo to The Band. The emphasis is on talent, unaltered ability, and the result is a near-perfect blend of keyboards, guitars, and percussion...
lonesco cannot sustain this elegant intensity at full stretch, though in the past he has done so. Where a play like Rhinoceros was intransigently original, as the imagery of The Triumph of Death cumulates, it becomes literary, reminiscent; often beautiful, it is eventually muffled in echo. Worse, satiric invention flags, seeks easy targets: political speakers who die, pompous doctors who die. At the end, the plague abates, but Death still waits, for the city and the few survivors are consumed by fire. An arbitrary close. But that's the point...