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...Death in two parts; as is becoming customary with this play, Director AJ. Antoon is staging only the first part in this production at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Despite a distinguished cast, this is a narrowly drawn onenote, or perhaps two-note kind of performance. It mixes rage and exhaustion the way old club fighters hack away and then fall into each other's clinch, softly drubbing the kidneys, to rest for a little while. (A few years ago, Friedrich Duerrenmatt staged The Dance of Death literally as a boxing match...
...threats of violence in the air. Indeed, the nationalist campaign in Scotland is being conducted rather like a civilized divorce proceeding, as befits a people who pride themselves as much on what they repress as what they show. "You can't live day to day with your own rage," says Neil Kay, 25, a graduate student in economics at Stirling University and a Nationalist activist. "If we're going to do anything, we are going to do it by rational and reasonable methods...
None of these movies approach the tense excellence of what may be the all-time best-of-breed: Director Steven Spielberg's Duel (1971), in which Dennis Weaver plays a peaceable salesman hurrying to a meeting through rugged desert country and incurring the psychopathic rage of a truck driver by passing him on a hill. His desperate efforts to avoid murder by collision with a relentless foe, whose face neither he nor the audience ever glimpses, is an unforgettable exercise in the action-suspense category...
...select words so ingeniously misapplied without being mispronounced," Maggie Brenner enriches the absurdity of Mrs. Malaprop's character and language through controlled inflection and frenzied movements. Playing opposite Brenner, Mark Mosca is grotesquely amusing as Anthony Absolute. Buttressed by strong stage presence, he limps around, bursts into fits of rage and screws up his face like David Fry. The character of Captain Absolute is cold and obnoxious, and Richard Bangs's performance does not add any warmth to the part. Bangs often seems to be just reading his lines. Sir Lucius O'Trigger is a stock Irish figure, and while...
...abuse the ear. The screenplay, by the Pulitzer-prizewrnning playwright Paul Zindel, is full of inexcusable dialogue ("I haven't got you anything for Christmas yet, but how about a kiss on account?" "You know who Mame is-she's the Pied Piper"). Beatrice Arthur, the rage right now as television's Maude, brings the movie to life whenever she appears. Her voice-that of a Marine D.I. with social ambitions-can coax a belly laugh from a wheeze. She tucks Mame under her arm and walks away with it, although not far enough...