Word: slaving
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...photograph in your Cinema section [Dec. 11] of a slave trader coolly examining the teeth of a naked woman closely parallels the 19th century French painting Slave Market, by Jean Léon Gérôme, in the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass...
Alfie woos and walks out on six birds. One bird is a nesting sort and makes Alfie a father. His idea of child support is to buy a teddy bear. Another is a Venus flytrap. Still another likes to slave for Alfie, and it touches him, but workers are neuters. "Look at it -scrub, scrub, scrub...
...Toilet and The Slave, by LeRoi Jones, are one-act spasms of fury. Naked hate, like naked love, is very hard to project or sustain on a stage, but Negro Playwright Jones can do it with venomous intensity...
...Slave Trade in the World Today is an Italian-made documentary that pursues its righteous ends with unseemly gusto. It begins in almost Biblical solemnity, citing the U.N. declaration that "slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms." Next, Novelist Robin Maugham, nephew of Somerset, reports that he himself bought a slave in the Sahara for $105 and set him free. And who is to blame for the traffic in human beings in Africa and the Middle East? Who else but the U.S., which, Maugham says, cares only for her "vast oil interests. Britain does nothing...
...Wheeler's refreshing interpretation and Karlen's convincing performance is sustained by a mature troupe of supporting players. Barbara Colby is uncannily believable as Caligula's almost worn out but vapidly feminine mistress, and Jerome Raphel appears as strong, conscious and submissive as one could hope Caligula's ex-slave bodyguard to be. Only Joseph Hindy, who plays Caligula's naive, sensitive and ultimately rejected friend, Scipio, seems out of place on this fine stage. His movements are stiff, he slouches, and he swallows too many lines...