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...enormous strides with his Gloucester. Patricia Hamilton (Goneril) and Mary Hara (Regan) are a vast improvement over their predecessors. And--though I loathe comparisons--Richard Mathews surpasses Lester Rawlins, whom I considered the finest Fool I had ever seen. Not only has Mr. Mathews managed to make clear every pun, analogy, and double entente, but he has added to the character an element of such deep love that one can almost feel his own pain as he chastises, scolds, and warns his master...

Author: By Harold Scott, | Title: A King Lear Reviews 'King Lear' | 8/5/1965 | See Source »

...Lindsay want help, financial or otherwise, from Republican National Committee Chairman Ray Bliss? "No," Lindsay answered. "This is a city matter." His reply wrenched a pun from New York's three-term Democratic Mayor Robert F. Wagner, who chortled, "It looks as though Mr. Lindsay is afraid of being Blisskrieged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Running Away from Them | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...have once thought so. But after 13 years Ogden Nash came to the conclusion that it was time for him to go. Manhattan was no longer up his alley. The cost of living! Twelve bucks for a dozen lilies of the valley. So he packed up pun pen and went back where he lived before. To Baltimore. There, he sang the oriole's springtime song: "I'm back where I belong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 28, 1965 | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

...attempt to re-create a period must be laved in memory and affection, but Flora looks down on rather than at the '30s. The show's parodies of parlor-pink dance epics, and the "knock knock" pun craze are too self-consciously silly to be funny. A tune-drab, dance-starved, lead-witted musical is scarcely the dream debut for a star, but Liza Minnelli puts vocal muscle and wistful appeal into her spindling role. She has the wide famished eyes of a waif, that vulnerable little-child look of hunger and wonder. Like her mother,Judy Garland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Marx's Revenge | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...that most of the G.O.P. total consisted of party votes rather than Goldwater votes, Rusher answered, "Given all the pressures to defect, I think the 27 million had an unusually high proportion of the gold as opposed to the dross, contrary to Hugh Scott." He smiled, pleased with the pun, and continued, "They would have sunk their hands on a barrel of rattlesnakes to pull the Goldwater lever...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: William Rusher | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

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