Word: michael
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Louis' last canvases in March, sold almost all of them at prices up to $15,000; Washington's Gallery of Modern Art is staging a retrospective with 15 more. The largest retrospective (see color opposite), made up of 54 canvases assembled by Harvard's teacher-critic Michael Fried, opens at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts this week, after having appeared at the Los Angeles County Museum...
While the Marxist polemics are dated-who keeps servants, anyway?-the psychological tensions of the play are intact. Actor Roger Hamilton is a bristling porker of a Puntila, rutting, grunting and swilling his way through the part, but Michael Fairman's Matti is a trifle too stiff and condescending to be a Sancho Panza foil to this flamboyantly intoxicated Don Quixote...
Accident. A metal-crunching car crash shatters the silence of a warm Oxford night. In the wreck lie a boy (Michael York), mangled and dead, and a beautiful girl (Jacqueline Sassard), in shock but uninjured. A university don (Dirk Bogarde) runs to the car, recognizes its occupants as his students, and gives the girl his hand. As she emerges, she steps on the dead boy's face-an act that symbolizes what is past in her life and what is to come in the film. The don takes the girl into his home, puts her to sleep...
...Timothy S. Mayer (the Devil's advocate) swept about the stage in a huge blue cape. He was as foxy as a Hollywood villain, as haughty as a Jacobean king. He relished his pronouncements like a small boy relishes his lemon drops. The worst actors stumbled towards self-effacement; Michael Boak (Sanitonella) became no more than an occasional buzz...
...three town officials, Michael Brooks as the mayor, Trevor Waters as the parson and John Gilmore as the constable should spend more time bullying an less luxuriating in the rich sound of their English accents. The three of them haven't got the arrogance of an old man whistling after a cat at night...