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...horrible twisted images" Whitman reports seeing may well be his fellow players, feigning madness in the best amateur style while a sound track symphony booms music to go to pieces by. As a manic-depressive sex kitten, Carol Lynley somehow suggests that a good fortified cereal would put her back together again. McDowall and Whitman, tending the rose garden, make thorny work of it. And Actress Bacall, woefully miscast, exercises her steel-and-velvet charm as if she were running a rest home for demented Bunnies. Bacall's throatiest, most telling line: "I detest stupid people who think they...
Rubinstein playing Mozart's Concerto No. 20 and Haydn's Andante and Variations in F Minor (RCA Victor) is only slightly less inspired. He brings a kind of melancholy serenity to Mozart and a flashing excitement to Haydn's study in manic-depressive music; in a single phrase, his mood shifts from joy to despair...
Kafka to Pasternak. A dynamic, contemporary society above all demands a degree of decentralization. Indeed, Russia no longer has the idle hands and lands to afford the manic wastage, inspired inefficiency and brontosauric unresponsiveness of an economy nannied from Moscow. Its real gains in the future will have to come through increased individual efficiency, even if efficiency in turn demands a degree of freedom that Russians have not yet attained...
Strangely, in the course of the play (though very long, it seems short in this production), Mick remains fixed: passionately protective of his brother, yet reserved to the point of paralysis in his presence; liable to manic outbreaks and attacks on Davies, and prodded by his own dreams of progress. Aston, his brother, also does not change: ever dreamy, ever puttering with broken appliances in the expertly littered set of Bonny Wooldridge, he never raises his voice, never moves suddenly...
...week, two art magazines, a pair of profitable TV stations and a burgeoning news service, had for more than a year been suffering from a mentalailment that intermittently but increasingly removed him from his daily work. For the past six weeks he had been a voluntary patient for chronic manic de pression at a psychiatric hospital in suburban Washington...