Word: infernale
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Summoned into emergency session three weeks ago amidst Russian cries of threatening war, the U.N. General Assembly met in Manhattan to defuse the international time bombs threatening the peace of the Middle East. Last week, after eight days of palaver, the Assembly brought forth its own novel method of bomb...
The Infernal Machine (adapted by Albert Bermel from the French of Jean Cocteau) is Oedipus Rex revised and enlarged. The Cocteau version, which is 24 years old, does some clever satiric tale twisting, makes the story turn a psychological handspring or two, tosses in talk of music and dancing, and...
Opening like a work even better known than Oedipus-two sentries on the battlements of Thebes have for some nights been seeing the ghost of Oedipus' father-The Infernal Machine is most brittle and playful in its long, chatty first scene, where Jocasta (June Havoc), all dolled up for...
The play is fitted out with much such modern plumbing. Yet in inventiveness and impact alike, it somehow falls short. It falls short for one thing because it is so unmercifully long; for another, because it achieves no pervasive tone or attitude. It reupholsters the Oedipus story rather than reshapes...
Infernal Triangle. In Mexicali, Mexico, police jailed Pedro Maldona de Valdez after he stole a pair of trousers from a dry cleaners and gave them to a friend -who took them immediately to the cleaners to be pressed.