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METAMORPHOSIS Adapted by Steven Berkoff from a story by Franz Kafka...
Nothing is wrong with the source material, which has inspired countless other stage adaptations. Franz Kafka's story of a man who one day wakes up as a giant insect has provided one of the 20th century's hallmark nightmare images. The essence of the horror is that there is no explanation for it, no deeper meaning, no instructive or redemptive metaphor: the suffering just is. In the transmutation of Gregor Samsa, the world ceases to be predictable or rational; natural and moral order disappear. Critics have found in Kafka's vision hints of everything from the Holocaust to AIDS...
Agent Tess Tosterone combines the physique of the Incredible Hulk with the character of Saturday Night Live's "Pump you up" boys, Hanz and Franz. She has the voice and the lines for the job: "I tell you now and you remember later, but believe me now." Zlupko's stage presence and oafish dancing perfectly suit Tess, who is at one point aptly called "Zuberwench...
...Franz Schonhuber, 66, the burly national chairman of the Republican Party, capitalized on that disillusionment. During the campaign, he called for the repatriation, in stages, of foreign workers, an obvious reference to the 120,000 Turks in West Berlin. He also urged tough measures to stem the flow of asylum-seekers, proclaiming that a "multiracial society is a red flag to our party. We don't want it." On election night, Schonhuber exulted, "Today the Germans have shown again the need for a democratically purified patriotism...
...invoked than read. But one would be hard pressed to find much public recognition of their contemporaries in painting. There is Caspar David Friedrich, the darling of the art historians, with his cloaked and silent watchers, his chilly crags and moonstruck ships. But Philipp Otto Runge? Carl Gustav Carus? Franz Pforr and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld? Johann Overbeck? Franz Horny or Adrian Zingg? Not household names, exactly -- yet interesting and sometimes remarkable artists, all the same. Hence the Morgan's show fills a distinct gap. None of the drawings and watercolors in it have been seen in America before; they...