Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Loeb, however. Vladimir and Estragon smile, exchange hearty fratternity-house slaps, advance eagerly toward the wings as if to leave, and fall short of taking a full exit only by freezing into a tableau. The'Loeb's Waiting for Godot has a happy ending...
Joseph Maher plays the vile braggart Parolles very close to farce. Dressed in hideous patchwork garb with a ring in his left ear, he exaggerates his hat flourishes, sticks himself with his sword, and at one point makes his exit like a javelin-thrower in slow motion. But why must he change Shakespeare's "an idle lord" to "a foolish lord"? Once started, there is no end to such idle tinkering...
...through September 6 in alternation with "Othello" and Shaw's "The Devil's Disciple," which will be reviewed in these pages. The drive to the picturesque grounds on the Housatonic River takes about two and a half hours via the Massachusetts Turnpike, Interstate 91, and the Connecticut Turnpike to Exit 31 (at the bottom of the exit ramp, turn left despite the sign). Performances tend to begin promptly at 2 and 8:30 in the air-conditioned Festival Theatre. There are free facilities for picknickers on the premises...
...British custom, moving vans arrived at No. 10 with almost indecent haste to cart away the household possessions of defeated Harold Wilson and his wife Mary. Shortly before Heath went in the front door, the Wilsons left swiftly through the back exit. Said Wilson: "She never thought of it as home." In fact, the Wilsons had no real home. Until they found new digs, Heath graciously offered them the use of Chequers, the prime ministerial weekend estate, 40 miles northwest of London...
...angered by radical attacks on the country, the President, the armed forces. The President, they argue, must know what he is doing. One gets the distinct impression that if he changed his stance-for instance, if he were to call the war a mistake and announce a much faster exit -El Dorado would go along with him. Most people instinctively stand with the President. Richard Nixon himself, apparently a passionless man. provokes a passionless, no-alternative kind of support; but the President of the U.S. remains a strong focus of loyalty and hope. More than a "pause" from crisis...