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...stained glass windows light up, eerie and striking, their patterns pop, untrite and yet faithful to the spirit of the cathedral and religious scenes that one has come to expect from the medium. The stage is floor level, jutting on three sides into the audience and consisting of szthe skeleton outline of a large ancient building, the Priory Hall. Inside is a table set for dinner. This arrangement provides half the distance of the conventional stage and half the closeness of modern experimental theater, which is appropriate for a play that is largely static and meant to be intellectually rather...
...Longer Kings. In fact, Mineral King is not quite that. The skeleton of the abandoned mining town (onetime pop. 500) is still in plain view and at least 60 summer homes now dot the proposed ski valley, which can be reached by an existing dirt road. Moreover, Mineral King is the jumping-off point for summertime packhorse trips into the wild, mountainous wonder. Disney officials say that the Kaweah River is already polluted downstream from the stable of the horse-renting concession-and promised to do something about...
This is a very basic insult. The skeleton of the true Turner, a black man, can be clearly discerned in the original confessions. That Styron made no attempt to include a portion of Turner's own viewpoint in the novel's hero is nothing less than a denial of Turner's basic worth and separate personality. It is to say that he is not fit to appear, even marginally, in the novel that bears his name...
Mind vs. intuition is the skeleton-key to his films...
...Kennedy, now 36, the next few years will be mostly a matter of biding his time-speaking his piece on the issues, keeping a skeleton political organization intact, tending to his Senate duties, playing foster father to Bobby's children as well as father to his own three children. He will inevitably be tugged toward the presidency by the party and his own ambition, away from it by his family. From his receptivity to the draft-Kennedy movement in Chicago in August, it seems clear that Ted would opt for the presidency. There is no question that the oldfashioned...