Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS. Four diverting playlets about love, sex and marriage. While not overly witty or wise, they foam with gentle laughter. Richard Castellano is superbly sad and funny as a long-wed father contemplating the wreck of his son's marriage...
...Sad Commentary. The meetings were reportedly working sessions aimed at reaching practical agreements. From the tone of the communique issued when they ended, it would seem that it was the Russians who got most of the work done. Dubček not only pledged once again to place Czechoslovakia's press in "the service of socialism," but also gave preliminary approval to the "temporary stationing" of Warsaw Pact troops throughout his country-a concession that would legalize an indefinite occupation. Though Czechoslovak leaders have privately pledged that "no one will be arrested here for his political beliefs," the agreement...
Revived Rebellion. Thus in la noche triste, or the sad night as it was immediately named, Mexico City's students and the government reached a tragic climax of the quarrels that began last July. It was at least partly the result of a miscalculation. The students had planned a mass march to one of their campuses occupied by the army, but called it off at the last moment when they heard there were troop concentrations along the route. However, the army, under strict orders to crush the demonstrations at any cost, moved in anyway...
...seasonal multimillion-dollar losses, Broadway is about as uncommercial an enterprise as can be imagined, and the right to fail is honored more often than not. Ever since the success of Virginia Woolf in 1962, Edward Albee has exercised this right annually. Tiny Alice, The Ballad of the Sad Café, A Delicate Balance, Malcolm, Everything in the Garden, and now Box and Quotations from Mao Tse-tung represent the alarming deterioration of a formidable talent...
...good reason, The Charge of the Light Brigade includes a disconnected, listless affair between an officer (David Hemmings) and his best friend's wife (Vanessa Redgrave). Scenarist Charles Wood (How I Won the War) overloads the script with totally unsubtle pacifist propaganda. "It will be a sad day," intones Lord Raglan, Britain's supreme commander in Crimea, "when England has officers who know what they're doing . . . it smacks of murder...