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...acting, however, is superb. As Rene LaGuen, the sick, bewildered half-idiot, Marcel Mouloudji is unforgettable. With his raggedy walk and shapeless body, he looks often like a teddy bear but seems, at times, a man possessed. LeGuen's cellmates, Raymond Pelligrin as Gino and Antoine Balpetre as Dr. Dutoit, the one a young Corsican feudist and the other a resigned old man, make proud and individualistic people for whom legal 'responsibility' can only be irrelevant. It merely intensifies the private obligation to die well. As Rene's kid brother, Georges Pouliouly sometimes seems less bewildered than still...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: We Are All Murderers | 3/16/1957 | See Source »

...symbol of sacred love, and her ugly sister Orual, a symbol of profane love. By contrast, their Greek slave tutor, Lysias the Fox, is a symbol of the rational, worldly skeptic of all ages. The Fox tells the princesses that their country's religion, which revolves around a shapeless stone earth-mother deity named Ungit, is a pack of lies. But Ungit's priests bully the king into offering up Psyche as a human sacrifice to redeem the kingdom from an ill fate. The heartbroken Orual makes a pilgrimage to recover her sister's bones from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Psyche in Paradise | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

Some of the poems here are not clear. John Ashbury's Chinatown, for instance, is filled with small startling things--"when the firebug grated a lemon"--which only jounce; taken as a whole, the poem is dreamy and shapeless...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: i.e. | 12/20/1956 | See Source »

...major difficulty with Memorial Hall is that it is so poorly equipped and illumnied and so shapeless that it is unsuitable for modern use. Its heating and lighting are outmoded so that the structure can't be used advantageously for any function," Bogner explained...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Professor Says Mem Hall Unsuitable for Monument | 12/20/1956 | See Source »

...Critic is a somewhat shapeless play, made up of two parts. The first, little more than a series of character sketches, is laid in the home of one Dangle, portrayed ably but with a faintly incongruous accent by James Matisoff. Here, in addition to Puff, another aspiring author named Fret, played by Marc Brugnoni, and a gentleman-about-town called Sneer, portrayed by Robert Jordan, needle each other with polished skill. But Thomas Teal, as a horse-faced and impassive servant, all but steals the scene as the helps his master ceremoniously slip on a corset...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Oedipus and The Critic | 10/11/1956 | See Source »

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