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...Sound and the Fury. A shrewd, drastic revision of William Faulkner's labyrinthine novel, with almost every character fumigated. Excellent acting by Joanne Woodward, Yul Brynner, Margaret Leighton...
Philip Alston Stone '62 is a native of Oxford, Mississippi and a godson of William Faulkner, which explains why No Place to Run concerns itself with derring-do and decadence in Dixie. The South is, of course, just about the best place in the world for an American writer to be born, and Stone has certainly wasted no time in cashing in his chips...
...What few trumpeters know is that while tootling they approximate the effects of "a formidable Valsalva maneuver," i.e., a hard nose-blow with nostrils and mouth blocked. To find out just how formidable the effects are, London's Dr. E. P. Sharpey-Schafer and California Musician Maurice Faulkner last summer sat down in London. Faulkner huffed his way through several trumpet passages, including a phrase from Wolfram's Song to the Evening Star in Act III of Tannhäuser. In reporting their findings in the British Medical Journal, the researchers noted that...
...Sound and the Fury. A shrewd, drastic revision of William Faulkner's labyrinthine novel, with almost every character fumigated. The acting by Joanne Woodward, Yul Brynner, Margaret Leighton is excellent...
...Sound and the Fury. Hollywood has diligently soaped up William Faulkner's stained-honor novel, but the laundered version is also admirably starched with excellent acting by Joanne Woodward, Yul Brynner, Margaret Leighton...