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...play is not tediously didactic. It is a little bit as if Brecht had purified the character of Mother Courage, made her an ardent, spunky, dutiful young girl, and graced her with luck as well as pluck. The Caucasian Chalk Circle's essential mood is playful and bucolic. But anything bucolic in this repertory production at New York's Lincoln Center is lost in the grinding whirr of revolving stages and the clanking rise and fall of scenery. The music, crucial to any decent Brecht production, seems to have been composed by a tone-deaf mute. Watching...
Holography Handicaps. To pluck a hologram and release its light waves, a laser beam is passed through it. As the laser beam hits the hologram's interference pattern, it is diffracted into light waves that duplicate those that were reflected from the subject. The viewer sees the subject of the picture in three dimensions, apparently suspended behind the hologram at the same distance it was from the sheet of film...
They pose as army recruiters. But Musgrave is a slow-witted Brechtian soldier of dumb pluck who believes that he has finally wised up to the ways of the wicked war breeders. He plans to string up the skeleton and then mow down the town bigwigs in wrathful reprisal, a mortal atonement for war guilt. His trigger finger is numbed by the playwright: "You can't cure the pox by further whoring." This is presumably Arden's pacifist manifesto...
...time even segregating the sexes. But the Taiping leaders were so dogmatic and doctrinaire that they alienated both the Chinese scholar class who might have helped them and the foreign merchants and missionaries who also might have helped them. Their simple fanaticism and xenophobia led them to pluck disaster from the jaws of victory...
Which Myth? However, something more is meant in The Solid Mandala: White intends to pluck a theological plum from the prunes of his style. For 20 years prestigious critics in both Britain and the U.S. have found in White the stuff of literary greatness. Dutifully following the critics' advice, the reader will find hints of great profundities behind the gothic facade. In the first place, the mandala does not simply demonstrate the exclusiveness of one consciousness from another's-even in twin brothers. Mandala does that brilliantly -the same events being seen in succession through the eyes...