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...personal ideology. I admire Marx because I feel his thoughts are useful for humanity. But I identify first of all with Sandino. I rejected Somoza and U.S. intervention. I grew up with this reality. We were anti-Somoza and anti- Yankee. We didn't think there were any good Yankees...
...title implies, Macbett is Macbeth with a twist--more than a twist, actually. lonesco puts Shakespeare through a meatgrinder and winds up with something that falls between Monty Python and the Marx Brothers. If this production is more silly than profound, though, much of the dubious credit should go to director Andrei Molotiu, who has turned the play's darker moments into absurd self-parody...
...tough customer. He scoffed at a counterproposal by President Reagan for eliminating medium- range nuclear missiles by 1990 and, along the way, displayed a penchant for bareknuckle bullying reminiscent of Nikita Khrushchev. Indeed, the General Secretary showed little inclination to tone down his anti-U.S. rhetoric. Quoting Karl Marx, he described capitalism as a "hideous pagan idol, who would not drink nectar but from the skulls of the slain." The U.S., he declared, is "the metropolitan center of imperialism." In part such pronouncements were intended to appease the party's Old Guard, some of whom are still suspicious...
...Service, a portrait of pre-Broadway opening desperation. Reddin winningly playswhat else?--the playwright, a geeky kid from Oswego who eventually has to "die" for an hour and a half so that his show might live. Director Alan Arkin seems too conscious that Room Service was adapted as a Marx Brothers movie vehicle. Mark Hamill, the fresh-faced Luke Skywalker of the Star Wars series, is mustached and growly as an imitation Groucho; Lonny Price giggles and cavorts as a talking Harpo; Andrew Bloch is less derivative, but he is not distinctively anything else either. These performances have charm...
...academic disciplines it targets, the social sciences. The social sciences occupy a hazy realm of interpretation and bias. The verifiable accuracy demanded by AIA is as foreign to the social sciences as subjective interpretation is to basic algebra. We can assert--to take a nice, safe example--that Marx formulated his theories in the mid-nineteenth century; but beyond that, we can say little without provoking objections from a dozen different academic factions with far better credentials than those...