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Last week Mitchell was shaken by the indictments and looked years older than a few weeks ago. His voice trembled as he protested the grand jury's decision: "I can't imagine a more irresponsible action." Ironically, an often-cited Mitchell statement can only haunt him now. Defending the Nixon Administration, he told civil rights activists in 1969: "Watch what we do instead of listening to what...
...plots, too, have less potential than in Striptease. In Repeat Performance, Hitler's ghost returns to haunt Daddy, first as a garishly dressed woman and then as a bald-headed soldier. The Ghost reproaches Daddy for ceasing to love him, and then attempts to seduce Daddy's son. (Daddy, meanwhile, is running off with his daughter-in-law, She. The purpose of this subplot is never made quite clear.) With uncharacteristic heavy-handedness, Mrozek ends the play by blatantly stating his main point in the Ghost's last lines: "Time for me to go. But I'll be back. Tomorrow...
Mark Silk returns to his old haunt, Adams House, for a flute and lieder program. Mark, one of the best flutists around Harvard for some time, is often remembered for his funny and incredibly diffident speeches requesting spare change to keep the Adams House Music Society running. K.T.H...
...Banquo's ghost, inflation continues to haunt the nation-and the Nixon Administration. Frightened by that specter, housewives are organizing a nationwide boycott of meat counters, union chieftains are threatening to press for fat wage raises, and Congressmen are calling for a return to the stringent controls that existed until January. From the very moment that President Nixon loosened those controls, Democratic politicians and economists warned that Phase Ill's anti-inflation forces were simply too weak. Last week, when results of the first full month of Phase III were reported in Washington, their predictions turned...
...action of the play simulates the passing of two years by a recitation of the Hebrew names for the months, repeated twice. The beginning of the play is a bizarre surging of voice and motion that rises to a fever pitch; some lines which sound strange at first haunt the whole work--they keep surfacing out of situations with a new significance each time. Many points seem to gape unresolved for a while until they suddenly snap into a coherent idea. Even last Monday new things were being tried. If the energy and tautness that the optimistic team sees...