Word: insights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delights of Broadway in 1963, thanks to Joseph Stein's knowing dramatization and to a winning performance by Alan Arkin as the fumbling hero. Now Reiner has directed a film version that sticks closely to the words of the play but destroys much of its sly insight into the dawning of awareness in darkest Bronx...
These volumes will strike a strong nostalgic note for people who lived through those times. For the young, they will provide a lively new insight into events and personalities that shaped recent history. While the historical aspect of these CAPSULES - and those covering other years, which will be issued in coming months - is surely significant, it was not this side of the books that most fascinated Editor Luce. "The point," he wrote, "is to take a ride in the TIME-machine and have...
...Measure for Measure is fundamentally a medieval inquistion into the nature of sin. Watching Mayer tone down the medieval and bring out the modern social comment is something like seeing Luis Set redecorate Chartres. This is not to say that it is without good moments, full of insight into the deepest insides of the play. But they are only moments...
...cast plays all the complicated parts, with all the stops pulled out, with astonishing insight and energy. We always know where each character stands, exactly what the chorus feels. Joan Tolentino and William Bramhall play a heart-rending scene that leaves no doubt about the horror of execution; later, in a living newspaper scene, the chorus takes hysterical delight in an execution. Both times we are strongly affected because both times the actors' pjositions are deeply clear. In a universally good cast, Dan Deitch stands out for his droll performance of a machine-like soldier, and Mardee Kravit...
...experts on Communism. His three-volume study of Trotsky (The Prophet Armed, The Prophet Unarmed, The Prophet Outcast) is an outstanding biography of that tragic revolutionary. But Deutscher is clearly also his own ideologue, surveying the Russian Revolution for his own romantic needs. This book offers a particularly revealing insight into the thinking style of an intellectual heretic who nevertheless remains a devout Marxist...