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...part to flaws in the script but also to a lack of fluidity in the mechanics of the show Lacking a real stage, the play is performed starkly on the floor of K-House's junior common room. Its one homey set is adorned with serious weapons and a portrait of the "hero." Scene changes occur lethargically, as the audience must unnecessarily wait in dark silence as it watches the characters move stealthily around on stage The sound effects--like the doorbell whose ring sounds like a lion's roar--are awkward and off synch, causing the actors as well...
During his lifetime, Mao Tse-tung, Chairman of the Communist Party of China, was shrouded in mystery and reverence much as were the emperors he replaced. When I visited Peking in February 1973, Mao's portrait was everywhere. The emphasis on personality in a Marxist system was astonishing. It was as if the titanic figure who had risen from humble origins to rule nearly one-quarter of mankind did not trust the permanence of the ideology in whose name he had prevailed. In fact, in attempting to inflict upon his country the tour de force of a lasting revolution...
...defense had ended its case last week with testimony from Williams himself, who proceeded to parry questions for nine hours in a confident and cocky manner. Under the gentle questioning of one of his defense lawyers, Alvin Binder, Williams tried to repudiate the portrait drawn by other witnesses. "Ain't no way I'm a homosexual, huh-uh, no," he said, looking directly at the jury. His testimony was replete with contradictions of statements he gave in interviews after his arrest, but on one point he was consistent. "I'm innocent, and I haven't killed...
...premature end of the Nixon Administration. Also in this issue are an insight into a tormented President who, always fearing catastrophe, ultimately brought it on himself; profiles of the two men who were Nixon's closest aides until they were jettisoned for their involvement in Watergate; and a portrait of Alexander Haig, Kissinger's deputy on the National Security Council and now one of his successors as Secretary of State...
Sketching by the soft light of a California morning, he looks vaguely like a whiskery Whistlerian portrait. Indeed, the first photographs of Henry Fonda, 76, since he underwent further treatment last year for a chronic heart ailment, provide a poignant glimpse of the actor recuperating at his home in Bel Air. Fonda keeps busy with an old passion, painting. Although he received a Best Actor nomination for his role in On Golden Pond, he has no plans to suit up for the Academy Awards in March. In fact, his only immediate chore is to rid himself of his facial hair...