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...this nothing of a King fell due the bill for 800 years of divine rights. With his fat and graceless neck, the least stylish of monarchs bore final witness to the death of the royal life style. He paid to make possible "the passage from one world to another"-from all that a monarchy assumes to all that a republic promises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death of a Style | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

...York, when officials rang down the curtain during a performance for the first time in twenty years? Or his nomination of Hemingway for President? Or his own candidacy for Mayor of New York? Or his belief that plastic causes cancer? Mailer, the cynics say, is "paceless, tasteless, and graceless...

Author: By Jesse Kornbluth, | Title: Norman Mailer | 5/10/1967 | See Source »

Dead playwrights can expect to have their work manhandled by succeeding generations, but no thing that ever lived deserves the thrashing Shakespeare is receiving from the Leverett House Drama Society. Their production of Twelfth Night is, alas, a graceless botch...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: Twelfth Night | 3/13/1967 | See Source »

Lynn Redgrave, as Time-Life have incredulously noted, is an enormous, graceless young woman in real life; it is not surprising, then, that she plays enormous, graceless Georgy with superb skill. One is so awed by the mere presence of this creature that one forgets her only talent appears to be her bigness...

Author: By Linda G. Mcveigh, | Title: Georgy Girl | 11/30/1966 | See Source »

...Graceless, monotonous, unfaithful to its source, Hamlet is less tragedy than catastrophe in the hands of Grigory Kozintzev. This is far inferior to the Olivier and Burton filmed Hamlets, and it is less relevant to Shakespeare's art than both Orson Welles's diced-up Othello, which took its script from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, and Sergei Youtkevich's Othello, which like the present film could display its poetry only in subtitles...

Author: By Jeremy W. Heist, | Title: Hamlet | 10/7/1966 | See Source »

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