Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country's most civilized performance. When Jack tried a Broadway revue, Robert Benchley marveled at his savoir-faire. Yet somehow Benny always seemed a cut below headliner status. His few films for MGM were undistinguished; he was too low-key for nightclubs. By mid-Depression the choice was narrow: the new medium of radio or the old misery of starvation...
State Sen. Jack H. Backman (D-Brookline), who is sponsoring legislation similar to last year's which would ban any gun with a barrel shorter than ten inches, once again has the support of Boston Police Commissioner Robert J. di Grazia and Middlesex County Sheriff John J. Buckley, whose narrow victory in the last election has been interpreted as a victory for gun control...
...play, written in 1968, is set in Japan, in the "17th, 18th or 19th centuries." Basho, the "great 17th century poet who brought the haiku verse form to perfection," journeys along the narrow road to the deep North in search of enlightenment. After thirty years he finds it and returns home, only to find the South ruled by the outlaw Shogo, who has murdered the old emperor and named himself head of the city...
Bond's point, though, is that tyrants become the victims of their own philosophies. "People who raise ghosts become haunted," he has Basho say, none too subtly. By the end of Narrow Road, Shogo is a dismembered corpse and Georgina is locked in the madness of her own sexual fantasies...
...Narrow Road to the Deep North shares the failings of many of the Loeb's productions. Once again, the imagination and expertise evidenced in the acting and direction fail to equal the high level of the production's technical artistry...