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Zorba the Greek. A wild wind whirls through an open door. A wild old man strides into a dingy waiting room. His face is like a side of cheese the maggots have been at, but his eyes are bright and piercing. "Hollow cheeks, strong jaw, jutting cheekbones, a large voracious mouth, a living heart, a great brute soul not yet severed from Mother Earth"-this is Zorba the Greek. He strides up to a young man he has never seen before and looks deep into his eves. "I like you," he announces fiercely. "Take me with...
...more interesting than the how of it. Nobody much believes in love any more; Broadway has not seen an old-fashioned nonmusical love story in years. This is intimately linked to the image of the modern woman, who does not seem real, at least onstage, unless she can spar, jaw-to-jaw and eyeball-to-eyeball, with her man. As Ibsen would have been the first to recognize, Nora competes at home nowadays, and the doll's house is a boxing ring. It is this laughter of inner recognition that greets Pussycat. All truly modern love stories...
GIDEON'S TRUMPET, by Anthony Lewis. A lively account of Clarence Earl Gideon, the jailhouse lawyer who changed the Jaw of the land, is used to animate a complex subject-the changing philosophy of the U.S. Supreme Court in the last quarter century...
Lyndon was unmistakably Lyndon, right down to the bifurcated chin. Barry was incontrovertibly Barry-box jaw, brow wrinkles, horn rims and all. Few U.S. cartoonists have so deftly distilled the spirit of these two men as Australia's Patrick Bruce Oliphant, 29, a recent arrival who has not yet set eyes on either Johnson or Goldwater and who took over the editorial cartoonist's drawing board at the Denver Post only last month...
There were bad moments too. There was, for instance, the celebrated "Copacabana incident" in 1957. A Bronx delicatessen owner sued Bauer for $250,000, claiming that Hank had punched him and broken his jaw. That was silly; a Bauer punch would have broken him into little pieces. But Hank was still hauled off to a police station, photographed, fingerprinted and booked-"just like a criminal." Partly on the strength of Yogi Berra's now-classic testimony-"Nobody never hit nobody nohow"-a Manhattan grand jury cleared Bauer of the charge. Another sore point: the cavalier way the Yankees traded...