Word: loeb
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Putting it all together each week is the task of the seven writers and eight reporter-researchers in the Nation section headed by Senior Editor Marshall Loeb, with the aid of Senior Editor Ronald Kriss. Says Loeb: "Few stories in recent history have had so many twists, turns and unexpected outcomes as this campaign. But maybe TIME readers are less surprised than other people because we've long been saying that the voters are in an independent mood, and this is an anything-can-happen year...
...PLAY IS UNCONVENTIONAL, and an unusual undertaking for the Loeb mainstage. Panizza's ideas have been undeservedly shunned by directors, but the script has technical faults which director Richard Pena failed to recognize. Sometimes the metaphor of syphilis becomes obsessive, which makes the devil's session before God too long, redundant and plain boring. As the devil himself observes, "You can take a lot of crap as long as you can communicate." His soliloquy is laced with pseudo-scientific clap-trap that is arresting only because Kenneth Demsky's tremulous head, clubfooted hitch and fine, brooding elocution fascinate...
...Loeb declined to say how many were asked to reapply, but said the number was "very small...
...more of an orgy, sort of, than a play." This is its American premier, and as far as I can tell it deals with syphilis coming to the papal court in the 17th century. Or something. An allegory for heaven knows what, by Oscar Panizza. On the Loeb Mainstage, May 5-8 at 8 p.m. $3.00 weekdays and Sunday, $3.50 on Fridays and Saturdays...
Mime vignettes. By David Fechtor and troupe. A good way to spend a nice quiet evening, if you know what I mean. At the Loeb Ex, May 7 at 7:30 p.m., May 8 at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Tickets free if you pick them up by noon of the previous day at the Loeb box office...