Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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O'Neill apparently misunderstood Moore's words as meaning that Griffin was not going to be fired. "He said it can't happen," O'Neill later told a friend. "He didn't tell me the truth." When Griffin was indeed fired the next day, O...
At the same time the script is not paced as well as one would wish. There are patches of water-treading and even stasis alternating with patches of too-frantic activity. The play thus produces not only shudders and laughs but also occasional yawns. Still, the new text is fully...
It is fortunate, too, that the Loeb cast is so accomplished, because Wycherly's jokes have a tendency to fall flat on a 20th century audience. Almost nobody in the audience got the humor in the repeated references (i.e. Horner's name) to horns, cuckolds and the like, which is...
Interestingly, Nannen had himself found the June 8 cover excessive and ordered it scrapped, but not before 1.3 million copies had been printed; the substitute was not much different: two naked dancers on a nightclub stage in St. Pauli, Hamburg's red-light district. Nonetheless, he protests that Stern (meaning...
The most striking thing illustrated by the show is how far behind photography?meaning the photographs Szarkowski designates as "serious"?has left its old role as witness to public events. Not one picture in the exhibition, except for an exquisitely formal-looking image of a fire in Minneapolis by...