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...transformation from brat to warrior is a shaky bridge for any actor to walk. Audiences have always found it hard to sympathize with his duplicity in leading on a lovable rogue like Falstaff, and the actor who plays him must make his deviousness seem right as well as log ical. To preserve his life and his position he must be more clever than other men: he is the son of a regicide and knows that the throne he will inherit has been made slippery by blood. "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," cries his father. David Gwillim adroitly...
...combination of utter vividness, precision of detail and fantasticated, rhythm ical design breathes from nearly all the miniatures, but especially from the work of the Safavid court artist Sultan-Muham mad, for whom this show is in effect a retrospective. In one image of a legendary Persian hero, Rustam Sleeping While Rakhsh Fights the Lion, there is a dazzling play between abstraction and observation...
...people a year.* Eighty percent of the prisoners mark their time in the states of the Old Confederacy; Georgia has the largest number per capita in the country. While most welcome legal help, there are exceptions: in Georgia, convicted murderer Jack Potts, who says he is in severe phys ical pain, pleaded last week that lawyers drop his appeals...
Rather than adding emotional or satir ical resonance, the songs and eccentric asides only bring confusion to the movie's continuity: Nashville has devolved into nonsense...
...resistance to close human bonds is characteristic of the people in most of Babe's plays. They are intimate with each other only when they are locked in phys ical or verbal violence. In A Prayer for My Daughter, a police detective who could have prevented his daughter's suicide deliberately fails to do so by not answering her radio call for help. In Fathers and Sons, a mythic play about Wild Bill Hickok, neither friendship nor love escapes the carnage. In Babe's Civil War play Rebel Women, General Sherman says, "I have no passion...