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...first one-acter is almost a Broad way in joke. Since Marat/Sade accustomed audiences to the sight of a man's naked backside, what are the prospects for a frontal confrontation? A deadserious playwright (George Grizzard) with integrity fever wants to stage precisely that. In the opening scene of his play, a man will be offstage in the bathroom brushing his teeth. His wife, in the adjoining bedroom, calls out something. Suddenly the man appears, stark naked, toothbrush in hand, saying, "You know I can't hear you when the water's running." According to the playwright...
...line Marine officer in Viet Nam, and it must be doubled in spades being both at the same time. Nevertheless, 1st Lieut. Gerard Nugent, 24, apparently has the situation very well in hand. Commanding Echo Company of the 2nd Battalion 3rd Marine Division, he led his men in a frontal assault on a Communist training camp 20 miles from Danang that killed about 70 Viet Cong, then moved on to silence a sniper nest in high trees near Battalion H.Q. before calling in helicopters to evacuate his wounded. Verdict from Captain R. T. Sheridan, Nugent's battalion-operations officer...
...held their noses. Whereupon Osborne, 36, flipped his Angry Aging Man's lid, firing off telegrams to the London papers. Osborne declared an end to his "gentleman's agreement to ignore puny theater critics as bourgeois conventions. After ten years, it is now war, open and frontal war, that will be as public as I and other men of earned reputation have the considerable power to make it." He then disappeared, presumably to grease...
...Sukarno threatened to dissolve the Congress, which he had reduced to a rubber stamp anyway. Suharto refused to allow that, since the triumvirate hopes to use the Congress as the vehicle by which to re-establish democratic government in Indonesia. But in line with its policy of avoiding any frontal clashes with Sukarno, whose popularity remains high among the back-country masses, the triumvirate agreed to postpone the Congress indefinitely...
...Russian icon with its blank-eyed stare and stiff frontal figures was, next to shop signs, the art he knew best. Those Eastern images lean away from pictorial realism toward symbolism, and he loved them, as he says, because they are both "magical and unreal...