Word: muted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Idea: a novel in which all of the characters have been struck mute. The only way they can communicate is through the pictures and symbols on a pack of tarot cards. That seems the borrowed inspiration of a green writer who has been rifling Borges or Nabokov-a novelist who depends on conjury, not creativity. Yet the tarot notion comes from Italian Fabulist Italo Calvino, 53, who has been producing such chimerical conceptions in his books for over 30 years. What is more important, he has consistently fleshed them out in original, whimsical and unsettling ways...
Jesus (Stanley Ferryman) is mute throughout the musical, but as he is brought down from the Cross in a sculptured pieta, his body speaks the moving language of anguish. Dual aspects of Mary's character are depicted by Salome Bey and Mabel Robinson. An electrifying showstopper is provided by Delores Hall, who seems to be AWOL from the heavenly choir as she sings I Love You So Much Jesus. That is really what this luminous show is all about...
...long. Within five months, the deaf-mute was arrested again and charged with strangling to death another prostitute, whose body was found stuffed in the closet of a $4.49-for-four-hours room in a Chicago hotel. Once more the evidence against Lang was strong: the day before the body was discovered, he and the victim registered at the hotel; Lang left alone. Again police found bloodstains on his clothing. In January 1972 he was tried, convicted and then sentenced to 14 to 25 years. But in February 1975 an Illinois Appellate Court reversed that conviction on grounds that...
Last month the deaf-mute was back in a Cook County courtroom, sitting impassively (occasionally wrinkling his nose at policemen he had seen before) as Circuit Judge Joseph Schneider ruled on his fate. On the basis of medical testimony from doctors and therapists who had observed Lang over a seven-month period, Schneider found that while the accused murderer has "manifested dangerous behavior," he has at least an average intelligence and is not insane. Another promising finding: for the first time since he was arrested in 1965, Lang has seemed ready to learn sign language, quickly picking up 100 basic...
...trial. To that end, the judge ordered the Department of Mental Health to come up with a special educational program for Lang. Beaming over the judge's decision, Donald Paull, one of Lang's lawyers, flashed a victory sign to his client. But the small, muscular deaf-mute, who has spent almost a decade in one lockup or another, only shook his head, shrugged and frowned. Lang remained in confinement, but this week the court is scheduled to decide when and where his schooling will begin...