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Last season, Manhattan's Negro Ensemble Company wallowed in polemics. Now the company has made a brave new start with the most impressive drama it has yet staged. The Sty of the Blind Pig by Philip Hayes Dean is steeped in the humor, the passion, and the frustration of black life. It is eloquent, powerful, moving and beautiful...
...leaves, and the two women sit in disconsolate resignation, like the heroines of Chekhov. Words of praise cannot do full justice to the play or the players, or to the skillfully unobtrusive direction of Shauneille Perry. Everybody involved deserves cheers for making The Sty of the Blind Pig a consecrated act of theater...
...long as Brautigan stays light his talent for whimsy can carry him along. But when the jester feels it necessary to make a serious point his pretentiousness and predictability are unbearable. He stretches a tasteless metaphor about a 24-hour pig slaughter house into the five paragraph "A Complete History of Germany and Japan." In another piece Brautigan sits in a Times Square movie house next to a cliched man, "fat, about fifty years old, balding sort of and his face was completely minus any human sensitivity." Brautigan compares him to a dog in the cartoon. Not only...
...Pig Manure. Despite treatment, the Libby wastes lying stagnant in the lagoons often smell like rotten meat. In the words of one irate citizen, the odor is reminiscent of "pig manure." Even so, the smells are seasonal, and (to most people) bearable. But last summer's wet weather produced an unusually large beet crop-and the worst smells ever. Fed up, 100 townspeople have now formed S.M.E.L.L.S. (Someone Must Eliminate Libby Lagoon Smells...
...laughter aside, the chief virtue of Millhouse lies in the hatred it so provokes. For, unlike De Antonio's other documentaries (Point of Order. Year of the Pig), Millhouse eschews an analytic framework except for its constant reminders of the temptations that media politics possess for the political candidate (for although Nixon is its top banana, other national pols also appear in the film to stand similarly condemned). And yet, I would not be prepared to admit that Millhouse is a film that speaks only to those already converted to a hatred of President Nixon. Numerous though they...