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EMPTY. The word is printed on publicity posters and hung on bulletin boards. It advertises the current Loeb Ex production of Samuel Beckett's two plays Play and Come and Go. White and uncluttered, the poster seems to defy what an advertisement should be. It suggests nothing of the plot, and offers no commonplace images, not even a prominent name. Just "Empty" and small print. But the poster is appropriate. It informs, Even though his first play was produced 24 years ago, Samuel Beckett's works still seem jarring and bizarre. And no wonder. Although his works may be recognized...
...mistress and hints of insanity, murder and rape. But the characters are dead in this chamber piece; we see only their heads atop individual funeral urns. The theme of emptiness runs through both of these plays, which seem to be devoid of images but which, like the publicity poster, are enormously suggestive. Nancy Krieger has skillfully realized the implicit imagery of Beckett's plays in an intellectually engaging if emotionally sterile production she directs and designs...
...removed flower wreaths laid in his honor at the Monument to the Martyrs of the Revolution. According to some reports, over 1,000 people were arrested in connection with the outbreak of violence. The riots were originally condemned as counterrevolutionary acts provoked by Teng and his supporters. In some posters last week, though, the riots were hailed as "a brilliant page in the history of the Chinese Revolution." The real culprits, the posters declared, were the people who forcibly put down the April demonstrations. These included the present mayor of Peking, Wu Teh, a close associate...
...letter was a complaint from an organization of Harvard-Radcliffe Chicanos about a publicity poster to a Harvard mixer. Somehow from a "Brother Chico" poster stemmed allegations of sophisticated institutional racism and a hemophilic knee-jerk bleeding taking us all the way to the concerns of the Third World...
...work so well for the guy who voted against the Machine and couldn't get his alley fixed, or the voter who didn't want to support feather-bedding in city government, or the store owner who receives a surprise visit from the building inspector after an anti-administration poster appeared in his window, or the tavern owners forced to pay extortion fees to corrupt policemen...