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Tapestry was to northern Europe what fresco was to Italy, or the refulgent gold-leaf screens of the Momoyama period were to the dark castle interiors of 16th century Japan: the main form of large-scale decoration. Moreover, it had two advantages that fresco did not possess: a duke could change his hangings, and they warmed his drafty abode in winter. And yet the appetite for tapestries went beyond all questions of use and ornament. They were collected with manic extravagance. As the Cluny Museum's chief curator Francis Salet points out in his catalogue introduction, Philip the Good...
...happy young lovers at the final curtain. In the last act, the young wife, who has briefly left the old professor, remarks that on returning she feels like the ghostly Commendatore in Don Giovanni. As if by magic, the sunnier side of Mozart's spirit seems to possess Chekhov, and he awards men to his maids with the same amused, godlike detachment...
Both Woods and the Rev. Juan Cortes, a Jesuit psychology teacher at Georgetown, point out that in traditional Catholic teaching on possession, the evil spirit was considered to be a lesser demon, not the devil himself. Cortes doubts the existence of such lesser demons, seeing them merely as archaic religious interpretations of what are now recognized as mental and psychological disturbances. Though Cortes believes in a personal devil who incites evil, he does not believe in possession. Thus, he says, the movie results in "a victory for the devil, because people will believe he can actually possess them...
Delivery and timing are, of course, essential to the comic value of such a situation. Julie Harris and Charles Durning possess both to perfection. They fence together like Olympic champions. Harris gives the performance of a star's star, while Durning acts with a subtlety, daring and solidity that he has not achieved before, even in That Championship Season. Whatever qualms some drama critics have expressed about Joseph Papp's play choices, his first season at the helm of the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater has brought a superior caliber of acting such as was never seen or even...
...fitting not merely that he [the physician] should possess a knowledge of diseases and their remedies but also that he should be one who may safely be trusted to apply those remedies. Character is as important a qualification as knowledge. -Supreme Court...