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...socks and underwear, the appearance of thousands of haggard employees and the empty spaces at 30% of the desks and workbenches throughout the city amply proved. With few exceptions, New Yorkers the morning after could fully appreciate the sign that appeared in the window of a littered midtown Automat: PARDON OUR APPEARANCE...
...express his virility. "To this day," observed the psychiatrist, "he always refers to her as Maman (Mummy), and suffered most in jail from seeing Maman only once a week." The court listened impassively, then sentenced him to be shot unless-as seems unlikely-Charles de Gaulle grants him a pardon. To the end he maintained that, although guilty of many crimes, "I swear on my mother's head that I never killed anybody...
This return to normality is something Prospero longs for. The pardon of his enemies is part of it. Vengence is God's. Prospero's rejection of vengeance for virtue is a parallel to his rejection of supernatural power for temporal sway. Neither shift should be happenstance. In Mayer's interpretation both appear so (as Daniel Seltzer played it, Prospero's decision to greet the waking lords in his ducal, not his magician's robes, seemed an incidental thought...
...charged that he had fallen victim to a conspiracy of right-wingers within the Rabat government, who wanted to block any chance of a reconciliation between the King and Moroccan leftists -something for which Hassan has been ardently working. A part of the reconciliation plan calls for a full pardon for Ben Barka and his eventual return to Morocco. But there were just as many reasons for believing a handful of other hypotheses, including one that members of his own party had pulled the snatch to keep Ben Barka from returning to Morocco and thus reducing their own political power...
Ralph Waite as Matthew Stanton springs from an Actor's Studio background well-suited to his role. Following the general tone he underplays the first act and opens up in the second. He successfully completes a vastly difficult assignment: gaining the audience's sympathy but not their pardon. A more flamboyant actor would have fallen off that particular tightrope...