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Beckett's two-act play is a highly abstracted vision of existence and of an enduring human spirit. The major character is an aging and chatty woman named Winnie who is buried, first up to her waist and later up to her neck, in a mound of sand. In spite...
Sir / It is ironical and amazing how white these people look when they are doing the same things that most people think only white people do.
SATURDAY: The Rules of the Game (1939). Jean Renoir's masterpiece captures the dissolution of the way of life of Europe's privileged class on the eve of World War II in the ironical events of a weekend party. CH. 2. 8 p.m. B-W. 2 hrs.
Safer Refuge. Fact, fantasy or a mixture of both, the tale spun by Farago was undeniably fascinating. Bormann, he said, left the Führerbunker for safer refuge in another nearby bunker that had been prepared by Nazi Executioner Adolf Eichmann. According to Farago, Bormann later used clerical clothes supplied...
David Warner's lame, stuttering Claudius is ironical, resilient, self-deprecatingly witty and wistfully sad as he realizes that even an Emperor cannot restore freedom to a people who no longer desire it. This is Playwright John Mortimer's staunch salute to Robert Graves' novels I, Claudius...