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This movie could use an intermission. It seems very long because it has nothing within it to signify the passage of time: nothing anticipated, nothing remembered. But it is never boring.
On the mythic level, the play is more opaque. Two characters seem more like gods than people, gods of the modern mind. Palmer, the psychoanalyst, is the contemporary god of reason, restoring order amid emotional chaos. Honor Klein, the anthropologist, is the primordial goddess of instinct, violence, and what D...
Would one-party politics, if it came, be just a phase in the cyclical fortunes of American parties, or would it signify a step toward the increasing number of essentially one-party systems which are emerging in both democratic and totalitarian countries everywhere?
Tokyo, the world's largest and ugliest city, is at the same time its most dynamic. Founded in the 15th century by a poetically minded samurai named Do-kan Ota, it wore the name of Edo during its early, bucolic years. Then the populace found its major thrill in...
The girl, we are told, is a "pretend person," the boy a "truth person." But these titles rather signify what gambits they use than what sort of people they are. "Let's pretend there's a fire," the girl says. "I am an inferior student of English literature, concentrating in...