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...many of his previous films-notably Accident and The Servant-Losey has shown skill at conjuring up corruption and terror. Here he is undone by his scenarist, George Tabori, who attempts a ghostly esthetic melodrama in the style of Henry James. Tabori provides all of the mannerisms of the master, but brings none of his talent to the task. Nor is Losey much aided by his actors. Farrow continues to radiate a fragile elegance and a shrewd sense of character and timing. But she alone cannot make a movie...
EVEN the remarkable depiction of the master-slave relation between the slave ship's apparent captain, Don Benito Cereno (William Young), and his apparent slave Babu (James Spruill) fails to compensate for the inappropriate tone. The image of Babu as a happy, able and devoted servant seduces Delano into unwitting contradiction of his American democratic precepts: "Sometimes I think we overdo our talk of freedom./ If you looked into our hearts, we all want slaves...
...handle them as gently as possible, by working through community agencies. In effect, it's the sort of style best fitted for communities with few serious problems of maintaining order, i.e. much of Nassau County and other middle class and upper class suburbs. The policeman can perform as a servant since his authority is seldom needed and almost never questioned...
...heads, and the intelligent, sensible protagonists who see the other actors and the situations in their true light. On one side are Orgon, his brash young son, and his daughter. On the other, Tartuffe, Orgon's wife Elmire, her brother Cleant, and of course Dorine. It is the forthright servant Dorine who insists on badgering her masters with the truth. And in the final act even Orgon is brought to see the light. (As if to emphasize how important he considers this, Rigault begins the fifth act by having the actors carry in lighted candles. This is also the first...
...move ahead to greatness. He thinks that U.C.L.A.'s faculty is "first-rate," but suggests that it might function better if staffed by specialists: some to teach, the others to carry out research. He also shares Murphy's conviction that the university should be the intellectual servant of its community. This fall, he has instigated a university-financed project that will sponsor ghetto seminars in police-community relations, form block organizations and present both news and songs from a mobile...