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...Lord Chancellor, Jack Marshall is utterly brilliant, a black-robed Harlequin who handles both his serious singing and his patter song quite well, doing a fine interpretation of "When you're lying awake..." as a much more sinister song than most singers make it. Nancy Urquhart as the Queen of the Fairies, and Lisa Landis as Phyllis, the other as the tender young maid-a commonplace G and S device, but a good one. Oliver Twom are both very good, one as an elderly Victoria type, bly and Karl Deirup are fine as Lords, but William Pomeroy's Strephon...
...that Egypt is not war weary enough to beg for peace and negotiate away territory. The scene in Tanta was a far cry from Sadat's first executive address before the National Assembly last October, when he was so unsure of himself that he drew only a polite patter of handclaps. Sadat became the butt of jokes. Now the jokes are subsiding. "No doubt about it," says a U.S. State Department official, "Sadat is the leader of Egypt." "You know," adds a top Israeli diplomat, "I'm beginning to feel that we underestimated this fellow...
...helicopter raid on Son Tay last week, it became clear that the raid was far more than a humanitarian gesture intended to get some of the estimated 378 American prisoners home for Thanksgiving turkey. The contradictory statements, clumsy lies and badly timed revelations, like a magician's facile patter, distracted and confused almost everyone. But the evidence is mounting that the Administration is using the prisoners of war as emotional tokens in a cynical and dangerous game...
Through it all, Crowley moves like a recording angel, catching every nuance, every diphthong of homosexual patter. But the script is marked by more than an appraiser's eye and an unforgetting ear. The author well knows the men Proust called "sons without a mother." He delineates the reliance on alcohol and drugs to pull a shade over the mind; the loveless encounters that begin with need and end with arrest; the deadly message of the mirror that announces the ebbing of the physical attractiveness that is the homosexual's main solace...
Jack Kehoe as Jebbie and Andrew Winner as Bobby were sufficiently rat-like to cause giggles in the audience, but were hesitant in delivering their lines. As a result, the jokes degenerated into patter. Al Pacino's direction should have given the play a big kick on its rump to speed it up, but remained restrained...