Word: parallelling
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...Tumarin's City Center production is funny--too funny--but it's good anyway. It can't measure up to the National Theatre's amazing acting, but that's, after all, only a movie of a play, and marred by some jazzed-up silent dream sequences, at that. The parallel monologues of a large number of characters demand a stage: filmed Chekhov never seems to find the right tone...
...humbug. Lies like Horovitz's are despicable; they are especially stupid when they are unnecessary, as in this case where the degree played no role in his hiring four years ago. But the proposed penalty--dismissal--is like cutting off the hands of a shoplifter; the punishment does not parallel the crime. Lack of a degree has in no way diminished Horovitz's ability as a writer or teacher. Perhaps City College could solve its dilemma by publicly and freely admitting its sloppiness and reprimanding Horovitz...
Fake Proverbs. The Chinese are not amused. Charging that the film draws "an unacceptable parallel between socialist China and fascist Germany," they demanded that the French government ban Les Chinois à Paris or suffer the consequences. The movie was no laughing matter to the French government either, which politely explained that it had had nothing to do with the picture. Nonetheless, since China had already canceled a French symphony orchestra tour of China and a Chinese gymnasts' visit to France when the film was being made last August, there were fears that a French industrial exhibition in Peking this...
Chairman Peter Rodino's committee intends to seek the evidence in two parallel paths. It will first request the material directly from the White House, and will promptly subpoena it if the President's attorneys refuse to comply. Jaworski rightly declares that he is bound by law not to give grand jury evidence to any other body unless a court orders him to do so. Last week he turned over to the committee a helpful list of the 17 tapes and more than 700 documents that his staff has acquired...
Schonberg dotes on his masters, sympathizing with their troubles, seeing them through difficult times, paternally chiding them for their faults. He cannot resist the music critic's temptation to liken them to composers, setting both grandmasters and musicians in parallel hierarchies. Capablanca--"pure, classic, elegant... yet capable of demonic force in his great moments... the complete technician" is the Mozart of chess, and Alekhine, "a nervous tiger who stalked his prey with involuntary physical twitchings and psychic lust" is Wagner. Fischer, Schonberg asserts, surpasses even Wagner in terms of "monomania...