Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mary Cunningham's name evokes scenes of boardroom intrigue, corridor passion and mergermaking behind closed doors. For more than three years Cunningham, 32, has remained steadfastly silent about the intimate details of her swift rise and fall at Bendix and her highly publicized relationship with Bendix Chairman William Agee, 46. Now she, along with Fran Schumer, tells her tale in Powerplay: What Really Happened at Bendix (Linden Press/Simon & Schuster...
...dialogues in a Harold Pinter play are pitched battles between speech and silence. The speaker marshals all the resources of colloquial language-wit, wheedling, anecdote, abuse-while the listener waits out his opponent and, often as not, wins the battle by withholding approval, by being as silent as God. Such, too, is the uneasy symbiosis of Playwright Pinter and his audience. In these three short plays that Alan Schneider has mounted off-Broadway (two of them first performed at London's National Theater in 1982, the third earlier this year), Pinter dramatizes this relationship through three memorable audience surrogates...
...form of Gandhian nonviolent resistance. That commitment has inevitably entangled him in a series of controversies. When leading British dramatists persist in boycotting South Africa with their plays, Fugard vehemently contends in 1968 that it is better to confront the regime with its sins than to remain silent. When ideology beckons, he recoils, resolving at last that he would rather reveal inhumanity poetically than revile it politically. "Tell the human story," he says, "and the propaganda will take care of itself." And when the Serpent Players, his all-black troupe of actors, are invited to perform privately before a privileged...
...most deplorable aspect of Coleman's action was his utter insensitivity to the fact that breaking this confidence helped to accentuate the climate of danger that already surrounded Reverend Jackson. Somehow Hirschorn and others consistently overlook this, while condemning the one alleged threat against Coleman's life, they remain silent about the more than one hundred death threats against Reverend Jackson (far greater than the number received by any other candidate), or the bombing of his headquarters in Anaheim, California by two whites. We, like Minister Farrakhan, feel that Coleman or anyone who would so carelessly enhance such a climate...
...cigarette or both, which were the last things Hopkins needed while taking dictation. F.D.R. usually had his own cigarette going, with its long holder tilted up at the jaunty angle that photographers loved to snap. Howe frequently lurked near by with his head in his hands, a gloomy, silent witness to the enterprise...