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Liberals and strategically-important southern Africa: The Rev. Rex Humbard prize for rightist propaganda goes this week to the news editors of The New York times, along with editorial page Editor John B. Oakes. The outpouring began earlier this week with a by-lined story from Salisbury, Rhodesia, cataloguing the murderous Rhodesian army raid on a black guerilla camp in Mozambique. More than 300 Africans were killed according to Salisbury sources quoted by The Times; this, in retaliation for a mortar attack on an army camp where four Rhodesian troops died. Following that story, in which not one Mozambican...
...stuff of a corporate soap opera, created by Norman Lear (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman) in collaboration with Sophocles (Oedipus Rex). A crusty entrepreneur single-mindedly builds his obscure shoe company into a billion-dollar conglomerate. He turns it over to his son. The young executive discovers that without drastic reorganization the whole empire could topple. His father fiercely disagrees. Finally, the company's board gives the younger man the power to dismantle much of the corporate structure his father had put together. While the old man watches bitterly from the sidelines, the young executive sells marginal stores and unprofitable...
...thoroughly unpretentious musical that refuses to take itself seriously drives some critics into attitudes of lofty, and sometimes bogus, condescension. They prefer to ponder the flatulent grandiosities of shows like Pacific Overtures, Rex, and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...
...this musical is like watching a marauding shark becalmed in a suburban swimming pool. As an actor, Nicol Williamson radiates a sense of imminent danger, mercurial passion and magnetic authority in such a way that he could be every inch the awesome monarch that Henry VIII was. But in Rex he is submerged in a book that swamps that masterful Tudor reign with research-soaked tedium...
Burnished Swords. Indeed, the only point at which Rex catches fire is a scene in which father and daughter (Penny Fuller) match warring wills like burnished swords. Fuller also plays Elizabeth's mother Anne Boleyn. As Anne, Fuller is a mettlesome enchantress who makes Henry's furious desire under standable. Singing in a warmly melodious baritone, Williamson enhances his tenderest moments in the show...