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During the days of isolation, the student discovers an English Bible which originally belonged to the "Guthrie" family, but which is now incomprehensible to them. For evening entertainment, and "an exercise in translation," the student begins to read the book of Mark to them. As the Gutres come to understand...
The ambiguity recurs in each of Ivan's moments of passion. Every prisoner is responsible for keeping the large white letters on his uniform legible. Ivan shuffles through the snow to the old painter who traces the outline of "S 854" on his cloth cap. An expression of grief passes...
The word "tears" recurs frequently in Richard 11. Yet it is no easy task for an actor to evoke tears for a character who is so full of self-pity. It is proof of Chamberlain's high emotive gift that members of an audience, so rapt that they never...
The Dandy and the Tradesman. Elegiac, autumnal and melancholy though it is, Home is shot through with rueful humor. Playwright Storey subtly draws an ironic parallel between the plight of the two men and the fate of England. The word island recurs: England shorn of empire, reduced to her physical...
All three of the comics deal with the problems of drug use, but Bogeyman, more than the others, focuses on the end points of speed and heroin addiction. In its "Hall of Infamy," a monthly feature on California's most strung-out freaks, the inaugural member is "Scorpion," who has...