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...supremacist tract. They need to examine the play more carefully. For one thing, King Alonso is on his way home from marrying his daughter to an African king. More important, Caliban is far from the most evil character in the play. It is true that he has tried to ravish Prospero's daughter, but he was not born to reason or to know right from wrong; he is not immoral, but amoral. It is also true that he plans a rebellion against Prospero. But Prospero, of all people, having been driven out of his rightful dukedom, ought to appreciate that...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Serving the Eye Better than the Ear | 8/7/1979 | See Source »

...drunken critic friend rails against hard-working Australians who will accept any old pay and have reduced him to writing for the Radio Times. A young woman (Jacqueline Pearce) with a manuscript in tow strips to the waist, brazenly daring Simon to ravish and, of course, publish her. Finally, his parched-for-love wife announces that she is pregnant, possibly by a man whom Simon despises. The subtlest alteration in Michael Gambon's marvelously controlled performance suggests that Parsifal will never sound the same again. No moat of detachment can guard the vulnerable castle of the heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Curtains Up in London | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

...local doctor Astrov (George C. Scott) yearns for a Russia that would not brutalize its peasants and ravish its land, but disillusion has sunk him in drink. He too falls half in love with Elena, and she with him, but she is too indolent and conventional to make an erotic leap to freedom. Poor Sonya loves Astrov-a futile, heartbreaking hope that exists only to be dashed. When Vanya learns that Serebryakov proposes to sell the estate, he goes staggeringly blind with rage and fires two revolver shots at the professor, missing both times-the ultimate, humiliating proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Unrequited Lives | 6/18/1973 | See Source »

...revealed the sham of his policy of Vietnamization, a policy which through a tortuous process of inner logic, demands that we escalate the war in order to enable American troops to withdraw. He has demonstrated that American foreign policy still dictates the necessity to sacrifice American lives to ravish independent countries and to squander our resources and energies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strike | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

...only place it flopped," Crowley said, "was Paris. But when I heard they translated the line 'Who do youhave to fuck to get a drink around here?" as Who do you have to ravish to get a drink around here?"-then I knew there was trouble in River City." He laughed. "I hear the theatre there had fur walls...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Mart Crowley and 'The Boys' | 3/25/1970 | See Source »

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