Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acting in general is excellent, Jan Madsen gives a wonderful comic performance as Hamm. Though unable to use his eyes or his body, he rivets the audience's attention with his voice and a remarkable repertoire of arm gestures. His highpoint is an attempt to narrate a story he has composed, throwing out one version after another, ripping pages from a notebook he isn't supposed to be able to read, commenting on the narrative ("A bit feeble, that"), and eventually running out of inspiration. His only problem is a voice that at times seems to verge on a Kirk...
...bombing or attempted bombing last year of 32 buildings across the country that are owned or leased by the Federal Government. Well before last week's explosion, security at all federal buildings had already been tightened in the wake of the alleged plot by the Berrigan brothers (TIME, Jan. 25) to kidnap Henry Kissinger and blow up heating ducts in the capital's underground area. The 7.5-mile tunnel system that connects the basements of Government office buildings in Washington has been equipped with an alarm system and most of its manholes sealed...
...anything for Bob Altman now and for the rest of my life, en-nee-thing," she says. By asking her to take the part of a mystic birdwoman-spirit in Brewster McCloud (TIME, Jan. 4), Altman might have been abusing her loyalty, but she responded by supplying moments of melancholy, dizzy hilarity and aching sexuality to an otherwise benighted project...
...Post's sin was to state on Dec. 9, 1969 that "a total of 28 [Black] Panther members have died in clashes with police since Jan. 1, 1968" without giving the source of its information or trying to verify the accuracy of the figure. What prompted the Post apology was an investigative report by Edward Jay Epstein, published last month in The New Yorker. In six months of research, Epstein found that only ten Panther deaths were due to police action, and in at least eight of those cases the police had been provoked in varying degrees before opening...
...books worth reading twice. In this autobiography, she demonstrates once more her considerable talents for evoking place and time, as she sketches the literary and political scene in England and Europe since World War I. There are flashing glimpses of the famous-H.G. Wells, Walter de la Mare, Jan Masaryk-as well as of obscure middle-European writers fleeing Nazism whom she tried to help. There are the sights and sounds of cities in crisis-Munich, Prague, Vienna, Budapest-as well as the bare cliff tops and mute-hued moors of her native Yorkshire coast...