Word: illusioners
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In a strenuously imaginative production some experiments must fail. Director Kahn has the leaders of France actually speak French while a man and a woman translate into microphones and loudspeakers simultaneously, in U.N. fashion. The effect is clever but distracting. On the other hand, a sense of the seeming invulnerability...
In New York, meanwhile, Associate Editor Charles Parmiter, with the aid of Researchers Mary Themo and Georgia Harbison and Reporter Jill Krementz, studied the assessments of the Guide that were cabled from European bureaus. Scott drew the assignment of touring with Fielding himself. At first, the travel expert was reluctant...
On one side is "the great community of the mugs," also known as yobbos, taxpayers and sordids. They are all those sober, serious folk who "just don't want to know" but who live in the illusion that they are the real inhabitants of London. On the other side...
The only certain value of an avant-garde is that it is a sign of fecundity. There apparently will be a long and agonizing interregnum between the act of separation and the new art which must inevitably follow. Hence the avant-garde deserves neither cultist celebration nor complacent denunciation. Someone...
As illusion after illusion is stripped away during the play's second act, Crowley manages to destroy virtually all popular conceptions of the homosexual personality and existence. If we cannot identify with the play's world of boundless sorrow and lacerating wit, we cannot turn our backs either. As one...