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Measure for Measure. A word may be the key to a play. In Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the key word is mendacity. In Measure for Measure, the key word is seem. Men seem to be what they are not. They delude themselves as to what they are. A...
There is no reason to expect it, but a remarkable scene occurs somewhere in the middle of this befogged exercise. An old woman named Anne Ives plays the mother of a murdered man who has been reincarnated inside Michael Sarrazin. Now Sarrazin himself has some doubts about this nagging notion...
KAWABATA delighted in reflections. At the beginning of Snow Country, a man on a train is astonished by the sudden image of a woman's face in the window beside him; the "other worldly power" of this symbol recurs numerous times in this short novel, evoking a poignant sense of...
Tod Papageorge similarly shows most of the people in his images intent on something other than himself. His photographs of seas of fans at a ball game, all intent upon the game, gives us a sneaky opportunity to examine the varieties of humanity without the danger of being observed. The...
It is this dynamic-this sense that the two lovers are heading in the same direction without ever being at the same place simultaneously-that guides the action of the play. Tension suffuses the opening of each of the play's six scenes, as the pair try to recognize each...