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James Coco as an overaged potential draftee called before a female sergeant for a humiliating physical and psychological examination...
...most major and complex artists (e.g., that Bob Dylan has always been at heart a rock and roll singer who started out in folk merely because there were no other options open to him in his early years) to finicky discoveries about the minutest details (e.g., that the Sergeant Pepper concept of a album as an integrated whole "can be traced back to the end of Between the Buttons"). And, remarkably, these multifarious insights are not stranded and left to fend for themselves in a mass of prose but, in Williams' writings, are usually integrated into a solid conceptual framework...
...Korean War, choosing instead to remain with the Chinese. The hour-long play focuses of Pfc. Duane Barnholt, played competently by Douglas Stevens, as he tries to persuade a fellow prisoner to aid him in an escape. All the time, he must hold off the menacing Sergeant Kondry, the group's brainwashed leader. Kondry--a fierce, vindictive little man as acted by Daniel Chiel--is concerned above all that the priosners' solidarity is not marred before the world's journalists, who are just waiting to see a mass repatriation. Using all the psychological power at his command, Kondry...
...richly comic and McNally's best play to date. At an antiseptically bleak Army induction center, a potential draftee (James Coco) appears for his physical examination. He is fortyish, fat, balding, and obviously the victim of some computer error. Nonetheless, his examiner (Elaine Shore), a squat female sergeant of stony mien and rigid devotion to the Army manual, proceeds with the examination. In a sequence of mounting hilarity, the thoroughly discomfited Coco is forced to strip down. The apex of comic modesty is reached when Coco tries to avoid total exposure by draping himself in the American flag...
...damage. TIME Correspondent David Greenway, who covered some of the grimmest fighting a year ago, returned recently to Hué. He recalls crouching in a house near the Citadel's east wall while waiting for an air strike. With him was a grimy U.S. Marine sergeant. Amid the noise of small arms and mortar rounds, the Marine muttered, "We sure are shooting the living hell out of them." Outside, a Marine tank grinding through the rubble took a B40 rocket in the turret and pulled back. The crew climbed out, wounded, and were immediately replaced by others...