Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...things we grew to hate in four years are things we became very attached to. We would love to listen to the news on the radio just to grumble at the news of the war, just to make cynical remarks at David Brinkley. But still we listened. The war became our reality, and so did racism and oppression. There was never a chance of our building something new, of making our own radical society, or even of building a conclave, making a sanctuary in this one. We were too attached to what we heard. And then, the horror...
...conceived and directed by Michael Kahn, never fails to hold the attention. It is, however, essentially a wilful distortion and cheapening of Shakespeare's play. Last season Kahn, with daring and imaginative updating, achieved the seemingly impossible by turning the inferior and (I thought) no-longer-viable Love's Labour's Lost into a dazzling success. Now, having been promoted by the Festival's top brass to the post of Artistic Director, the 30-year-old Kahn has applied the same daring and imaginative updating to a play that is simply not sufficiently malleable. He has, in effect, turned...
...program note, Kahn says: "The play is set on a stage which is a playground which is an arena which is a battlefield. The games of this play are the games of war, of conquest, of territory, of power, of betrayal, and of love--games played every day in the playground--and the space is transformed, as the playground is, into whatever or whatever the players want it to be." The trouble with this is that the Elizabethans did not regard these things as "games", as mere make-believe; these things were the very stuff of history and the very...
Occasionally, Navy Psychiatrist Pearlman has found wives with such a "pervasive masochistic attitude" about their marriage that they go to the opposite extreme. Bottling up their anger, they convince themselves that their husbands are always right and become "love slaves, allowing themselves to be taken for granted and exploited." The accumuated tensions sometimes disperse after a good fight, and in many cases brief psychotherapy resolves the problem, but Pearlman reports that untreated hostilities can upset a household for weeks-and recur with each separation...
...embittered horseplayer recently remarked, "If they raced rats and placed Tote machines in Madison Square Garden, they could fill the joint with suckers every night." He was getting at a basic truth about the fascination of gambling. But what clearly eluded him-and what Sam Toperoff conveys with love in this oddly winning novelistic memoir-is the peculiar delight, the exquisite angst that horses (and wagering on them) give a really dedicated race-goer...