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Mysterious notices on Cambridge bulletin boards last winter sought "intelligent and gutsy actors and actresses" for "The Proposition--a topical satirical review." Six months later and 80 degrees hotter, the director's call for those with intelligence and guts is understandable. Those rare qualities in its actors make The Proposition...
The trouble with Nixon and Humphrey is that they may be forever tarred by their identification with policies and decades blamed for the current mess. They are suffering form a rather logical--if unfair--guilt by association. But the apparent demand for newness and coherence, reflected in the apathy toward...
Ginn's production employs more conventional mystiques, making simple and obvious reversals of sexual roles: Madame Irma's "visitors" are played as vain effeminates, sexless transvestites who, when gathered together in the last act, remind one of the opening of Macbeth played in drag. Similarly, Irma is conceived as the...
Fry had little opportunity to do more than brand the charges "outrageous lies." But the ruling elders of his and other Chicago churches rushed to his defense. Said University of Chicago Theologian Martin Marty: "The John Fry I know is a man of integrity, honesty, grit and guts." Fry'...
But the much-maligned James Michael Curley had this same ability to forge personal, emotional bonds with his aides and cohorts. Shy, anxious Bobby Kennedy had something else: his backers were certain that he alone could move to heal the racial, generational, and international crisis hobbling America. As one Boston...