Word: mythic
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...HOMECOMING is both realistic and surreal, on a mythic yet natural plane, and most unconventionally conventional. While defying the norms of family and society, this domestic drama by British Playwright Harold Pinter is an exercise in instinctual logic. Vivien Merchant and Paul Rogers lead a perfect cast in Peter Hall's pluperfect production...
...HOMECOMING. It is distinctly unlikely that Broadway will see a play surpassing this Harold Pinter masterwork during the current season. The mesmeric drama is innately primitive, Oedipal, conjugal, and its mythic war between the sexes ends as that war aways does: no winners, all wounded...
...HOMECOMING, by Harold Pinter, is a trifle trickish and studied, but it is distinctly unlikely that Broadway will see a play surpassing it in dramatic quality during the current season. This mesmeric drama is innately primitive, Oedipal, and conjugal, and its mythic war between the sexes ends up as that war always does: no winners, all wounded...
...portraits of the great public of his time. For Picasso to become involved with passion and feeling, he had to know his subjects intimately. As a result, he principally records his own friends, fellow artists, wives, mistresses, children, or dealers and collaborators. Even when his subjects become most mythic-whether huge, sculpted Cycladic heads or etchings confronting fragile female beauties with bullheaded male monsters-the impetus can be traced to concerns in Picasso's personal life. No painter alive has recorded the exact day he falls in love, or turns against a woman, with more precision...
...mother should be transparent, a ruin of beauty. Maureen Stapleton is as solid as a mountain of pasta; one cannot see through her to the mythic past. There is bougainvillaea, and weeping willow, and a century of wounded Southern pride in the prose arias that Tennessee Williams gave the role; all one hears in Miss Stapleton's voice is the jagged, chop-chop talk of a tenement mother. The garrulity is present but not the gallantry...