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...production of The Night of the Iguana now at Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater lacks the luminosity of the 1962 original, it is admirable in its own right, with fresh shadings of interpretation. Four castaways at the end of the frayed rope of existence are thrown together on the steaming veranda of the Costa Verde Hotel in the deep-green sea of the Mexican jungle. At its core, the play asks whether they have been for gotten by God, cursed by God, stand in any hope of God's grace or whether God exists...
...jurors evidently agreed. William Link, 30, an employee of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., said they believed Bronfman had faked his imprisonment. The rope used to bind him was flimsy, for one thing, and the blindfold placed on him looked like a flip visor. According to Link, the jurors also thought Bronfman was lying when he taped an emotional plea to his father, then a moment later changed his voice and said briskly, "Do it again." On the stand, Bronfman was unconvincing. He appeared to choke up when he looked at the jury, said Link, and compose himself when he turned...
CHRISTMAS 1976. Divorced! My cards, bearing a drawing of a worried monk swinging on a bell rope to escape a mouse, will soon go out. They are a vehicle to announce to everyone who already knows it that I am single again. They are print-personalized, but anyone who is in any way important to me will get the card with the type crossed out and holiday homilies scribbled in. So why print-personalize the card at all? Don't ask such embarrassing questions...
Boys of the Lough: A folk band from the British Isles, these boys surely must realize that they'd better clean up their act with a little contemporary U.S. disco muzak to rope in those big bucks (or "pounds," if you will...
...large projects. He first came to the art world's attention in the late '50s and early '60s by swathing all manner of objects-chairs, trees, cars, women, motorcycles and, in 1968 at "Documenta" in Kassel, West Germany, a 280-ft. column of air-with rope, canvas and sheet plastic. If this all amounted to little more than a series of energetic variations on Man Ray's 1920 Enigma of Isidore Ducasse (a sewing machine wrapped and tied in sackcloth and rope), it gave Christo the base for more grandiose and original schemes...