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...play takes an almost maddeningly undramatic form. The first act consists of an interrogation of the murderer's husband (Richard A. Dysart) by a man who stands in the shadows and is known as The Questioner (Alvin Epstein). In the second act he interrogates Claire Lannes (Mildred Dunnock). The husband is a dull, evasive clod of a businessman, and the first act is enough of an ordeal to put a playgoer's patience in doubt. The second act redeems all. As certain healers are adept at touching the body to ease pain. Playwright Duras is skilled at touching...
...contrast to the Jason Epstein book or Tom Hayden's account, Lukas shows that this spectacular extravaganza need not in any sense be construed as a trial. It was a complex network of conflicts, dominated by personalities and fed by all of those issues which have been rightly injected into trial commentary. But certainly there were no winners and the trial has come to no particular...
Chillingly Sexless. The play also is vivified by the extraordinary performance in the title role of Alvin Epstein, one of the Yale Repertory directors. He hates. His eyes glitter with refrigerated rage at everyone, including himself. In an elegant, Hamletesque black doublet, his body is rigid with a tension that can never find release-even in the contemptuous dalliances that occupy his time. He talks constantly of his freedom, but he is incapable of breaking through into the real, accepting freedom of love. His only power is to destroy whatever he can touch-the innocent troth of a country girl...
...dead? As a business entity, the Beatles are contractually bound together for seven more years. They already have in the can one joint LP (Let It Be) that will be released soon, as well as one film. But since the death of the group's brilliant manager Brian Epstein in 1967, the Beatles have had, for them, rather a lean and hungry time. Record sales roll on and on, but Apple Corps Ltd., their business organization, has been plagued by dissension and failed projects. There has been specific trouble over Allen Klein, Apple's business manager, whom McCartney...
...butchers illustrate diverging white explanations of what lies behind the pervasive fear of black crime in Dorchester-Mattapan. Nathan Epstein thinks Supreme Court decisions have made policemen powerless. "Blame the fact that they changed our Constitution," he says. "At one time, if anyone would do something wrong, he would be punished. It isn't a question of the blacks. The police can't do anything." His colleague, Joseph Schaer, objects heatedly: "They gave you 45 stitches. They took my pants, for Christ's sake. It's a good thing they didn't murder...