Word: huck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boyhood in Yazoo before World War II. It is drenched in crawdads, squirrel dumplings, Delta woodlands, and Peck's-bad-boy jokes. But Morris eases out of realism into fantasy and back with no strain, and it's nice to think that somebody more contemporary than Huck Finn could remember it all that...
...political mill. Part of the crime of Vietnam has been a failure of visualization. It has been too easy to develop a seven o'clock news mentality that agonizes only thirty minutes a day. So Coutard particularizes circumstances and thus humanizes them. Hung is a kind of Vietnamese Huck Finn, and the acting of young Phi Lan in that role is completely sympathetic...
...immigrant's face. In times past, thousands like it-high cheekbones, timid eyes poked like currants into a doughy Slavic mask, pale from weeks in steerage-streamed through Ellis Island. Add shades, a black jacket and dyed silver hair and you have America's perverse Huck Finn, son of Mrs. Julia Warhola from Mikova, Czechoslovakia-a face that, after Picasso's monkey visage, is perhaps the most instantly recognizable in art today...
...Huck Finn's spirit may be lurking near the Charles this Saturday at the First Annual Adams House Raft Race. The race will begin...
...shame, too. This Huck Finn, while a victim of its own ambition, is always less than the sum of its parts, but you're sure to discover a number of wonderful little things in the production, even if few sustain you throughout the whole performance. And yet Thursday night's audience-many of whom were of high school age-appeared more exhilarated after the intermission than they did at any one point during the show. That too is unfortunate, because story theatre techniques can be incredibly exciting, particularly for mixed audiences of the jaded and the unsophisticated. But, this...