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...stripe halls of the Federal Reserve Building, appropriately located on Constitution Avenue and just a shadow's length from the Lincoln Memorial, the phones jangled incessantly last Wednesday evening. Aides to Chairman Arthur Burns listened, amazed and amused...
...SHADOW BOX by George Plimpton Putnam; 351 pages...
Plimpton was rewarded with a bloody nose and a story. But an eight-minute fight cannot be spun out for more than a few chapters, and most of Shadow Box is more or less conventional, and excellent, sports reporting. The chapters on Muhammad Ali are delightful, and Ali is not easy to write about, as Wilfrid Sheed and Norman Mailer have amply proved...
...Shadow Box is filled with anecdota...
EVERY DIRECTOR worth his or her salt wants to do Shakespeare at some point in a career, but in taking on the challenge presented by the ol' Bard, the prospective director faces problems that are frustrating and occasionally insurmountable. William Shakespeare casts a justifiably formidable shadow, even though he died some 360 years ago. All of his plays have been produced too many times to allow real innovation. Thus a director must make the terrible choice of a fairly straightforward, traditional show, or an off-the-wall, modernistic production...