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...came to symbolize much that went wrong with the long and searing U.S. involvement in Viet Nam was set free last week. Former Army Lieutenant William L. Calley, accused of murdering at least 22 Vietnamese civilians at My Lai in 1968, was released in a complex interplay of military and civil justice. He had served 40 months of his ten-year sentence, 35 months of it rather comfortably confined to his own living quarters...
...Wilson's turn-of-the-century novel Ruggles of Red Gap doesn't get read much anymore, and none of the at least five movie versions get much play. But the story of Ruggles the butler who came to America isn't dated, because it's about the crude interplay of ideas that don't die. Ruggles is an oh-so-British manservant who never thought to be otherwise: except for a clumsy streak of raw almost-sentimentality, he's in the best Jeeves tradition. In Paris he gets gambled away by his decadent master in a poker game...
...magnificent" one wants to grab her and shake her, shouting "Be it, don't say it." Nina talks incessantly about her daughter, who we are to believe is the most important person in her life--and yet we never see her daughter on stage, let alone the interplay between the two. We likewise never meet Toni's husband, though he figures mightily in the conversation. Of the relationships portrayed on stage, only that between Toni and her young daughter approaches authenticity--perhaps because the child lacks the fatal political self-consciousness that hangs like a millstone around the other characters...
Articulating this dynamic interplay between spoken words and latent tensions, and maintaining the superfine balance between the three characters, present a formidable challenge to the director and his cast. If John Greenwood's production does not always succeed in this, the attempt reveals intelligence and sensitivity. Greenwood has rightly kept movement and gesture to a minimum, letting the drama unfold through the words themselves. Unavoidably, the burden of interpretation rests squarely on nuances of intonation and expression. Occasionally, these nuances go awry...
...slated for early next month. The study is a sort of "Son of Limits." Like the first book, it focuses on the intricate interplay of populations, resources and environment, and insists that technology alone cannot solve global problems. It, too, deploys a computer model to deal with the variables. Again, man's prospects seem precarious...