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Counter to Leonidik is Marat, the impetuous dreamer who achieves his goals of becoming war hero and bridge builder, but forgets to find love along the way. In this role, Michael Sacks captures the character's lust for action in the first two acts, but let's down a little in the third. He doesn't quite get at Marat's feeling of emptiness in spite of success, and tends to substitute volume for incisive characterization...
Bank customers may lust after low-interest loans, hunger for high-interest savings accounts and crave credit cards, but they are not immune to more human blandishments. Recognizing this, New York's National Bank of North America (assets $1.6 billion) has begun putting its most attractive figures behind the counters. Touting some of the "beautiful reasons" to do business at its 90 branches, the bank has launched an ad campaign declaring "the end of the plain Jane bank teller...
...however, thinking about the subject of the play, which is a simplistic attack on American blood lust. Ranchman, played with great simian gusto by William Devane, is an accused rapist in police custody. A howling mob, which seems largely composed of teenyboppers, demonstrates throughout-half for him and half against him. A ratty prosecuting attorney introduces highly clinical and irrelevant evidence against him; the alleged rape victims-two women, a young girl and a boy-seem to have enjoyed every minute of the experience...
...while a passle of drunks, hypes, freaks, and madmen fight for the controls and the pilot's seat." The 1954 Supreme Court decision was "a major surgical operation performed by nine men in black robes on the racial Maginot Line which is imbedded as deep as sex or the lust for lucre in the schismatic American psyche. This piece of social surgery ... is more marvelous than a successful heart transplant would be, for it was meant to graft the nation's Mind back onto its Body and vice versa...
...artists whose versatility makes them impossible to be pigeonholed. Samaras neatly fills that bill. Says he: "I don't want people to be able to look at my work and say, 'Aha, that's a Samaras.' I want Samaras to be more than one person, lust as Picasso...