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...fact that nobody can be quite certain what Endgame means is, in the logic of the theater of the absurd, hardly a handicap. As interpreted by the Theater Company of Boston, the play is intended less to present an allegory or a message than simply to shock. Shock for its own sake, of course, would be merely discomforting. Shock as Endgame produces it wrenches the spectator into the absurdity of the drama and forces him somehow to identify with all the characters at once--they are all abstractions of the ages of man--and to share with them their monstrous...

Author: By Max Byrd, | Title: Endgame | 1/29/1964 | See Source »

...skids. The cast has already survived a boat's capsizing in Barcelona, a flood while on location in Toledo, and is getting ready for the big tent-fire scene at Madrid's Retire Park. So she heads for the Club de Campo with her 18-19 handicap to bash the pill around when she gets to relax. The flaming red hair is strawberry-blonde now, and her film role casts her as the mother of Claudia Cardinale. But the erstwhile Sadie Thompson still has the gams to make shorts worth wearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 27, 1963 | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

...Whenever possible," says Orthodontist Dwight A. Jackson of Winston-Salem, N.C., "we pick inconspicuous appliances for the adult. But we can't let the factor of appearance handicap the work. Fortunately, there are some procedures that need only inconspicuous appliances, and some mouths that respond to appliances worn only at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Psychiatry: A Better Bite for Father | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

...Laboratories and Hyland Laboratories, are extracting tetanus antibody from human volunteers in the form of immune globulin. But the price of one shot of human serum extract ranges from $7.50 to $11.50, whereas the horse serum costs less than $2.00. And even where price is no problem, an overriding handicap remains: human globulin is likely always to be in short supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Preventive Medicine: Shots for Tetanus: Immunity for All | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

Fall rugby's high point, the Princeton match (Yale has no fall rugger), was a minor catastrophe. Playing in the rain on the soggy field, the Crimson played without the services of its regular fullback. This handicap and an ineffective scrum left the Crimson lifeless as the Tigers triumphed, 16-3. The season ended at a disappointing...

Author: By Susan M. Rogers, | Title: Ruggers Staggered to 2-3 Season; Slow Start, Injuries Plagued Team | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

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