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...friends, Romans, country-men" scene, Ritten-house is forced to shout at full voice for about five minutes to a crowd whose mercurial temper is painfully, if not laughably, stilted. They roar disapproval run around in confusion, roar approval, fidget and scratch as Antony continues and like well-trained beasts roar again. When Antony whips out Caesar's blood-stained toga, which looks for all the world as it it's been smeared with strawberry ripple ice-cream, the mob gives its practiced gasp, but the audience, instead of being awestruck, chuckles...
...NIGHT WATCH. In this taut French thriller, five criminals trying to tunnel out of a Paris prison learn that a man can scratch and claw his way to freedom from everything but himself...
EUROPEAN MAINSTREAMS-Lefebre, 47 East 77th. A look at some of the major trends in European art today. Cobra Painters Corneille, Jorn and Alechinsky turn vivid hues and vivacious imaginations into Dutch gardens and smirking faces. Noel, Dahmen and Castel scratch calligraphy in mixed media to achieve image with script. Frenchmen Messagier and Tal-Coät recall nature's misty moods in abstract landscapes. Belgian Pol Bury puts chance to work in moving sculpture. Julius Bissier's refined watercolors and temperas round out the show. Through July...
...church that is 95% white in membership. A 1938 graduate of Union Theological Seminary, Hawkins has held only one ministry in his pastoral career, at St. Augustine's Church in a somewhat slum-ridden section of the lower Bronx in New York City. He started the church from scratch, with a congregation of nine; today it numbers 1,000, about one-third of them Puerto Ricans...
...perform surgery on the contents of a food parcel, to count skulls in the numbered cubicles where prisoners contemplate their anonymity. As a meaningful human drama, it has a point of view. Night Watch deepens the adventure of an underground escape route by saying that a man can scrape, scratch, hammer and claw his way to freedom from everything but himself...