Word: mann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agony and bewilderment are true, to the final exhausted syllable. The villagers are a finely balanced mixture of arrogance and dread. Kafka's tales all take place in limbo; the movie fills its snowbound setting with an unworldly black-comic air appropriate to the author, whom Thomas Mann called "a religious humorist." Pompous officials deliver pronunciamentos even when there is no one left to listen. A girl tumbles into the surveyor's bed-and exhibits neither love nor lust. The sullen winter light reveals the endless decay of life...
...final form did not fit either the Catholic or the Lutheran liturgy. In English-speaking countries, the wide-ranging appeal of such performances threatens even Handel's oratorio Messiah as a holiday staple. "If you want a full house now," says the London Times Critic William Mann, "you put on Bach's St. Matthew Passion...
...heavyweight championship bout in this century. Five years later, Johnson, broke and living in Paris, sold a "confession" to a magazine in which he claimed that he had thrown the fight for $50,000 and the promise of leniency from the U.S., where he was wanted for violating the Mann Act. Willard's reaction: "If Johnson throwed the fight, I wished he throwed it sooner. It was hotter than hell down there...
...toting sadist couple from Westchester who find themselves thrown together in a New York loft. Leonard Melfi's "Night" is a moving poem about death. Very vile and not a little perplexing, the plays are acted to the hilt by a cast including Charlotte Rae and Sorell Booke. Theodore Mann directed. At the HENRY MILLER, W. 43rd...
...String. Director Theodore Mann manipulates his actors like a sergeant drilling raw recruits. Whenever the action flags, he stiffly strings the players before the footlights, as if for a military inspection. Even so, the players almost undo the damage. Sorrell Booke's three parts are written as caricatures of middle age, but at least he renders the caricatures with the bite of David Levine...