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...rhythms of life−sometimes sweet, more often jerking and spastic−are the raw material this remarkable company plays with. As for words, "Whatever I know, I know it without words," says The Serpent. Tactile and immediate, the Open Theater uncannily reflects the present-day audience−inarticulateness, frustration with words, an instinct to feel rather than explain, a deep nostalgia for a preverbal lost innocence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: After Innocence, What? | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

...comedy built around the unlikely subject of a spastic child who, as the focus of her parents' attention, holds their marriage together. Peter Nichols' play is performed by the new Madison Civic Repertory, Madison, Wis., on several dates between July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 18, 1969 | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...Francisco State have shown an almost incredible inability to relate means to ends in any rational manner: by making their revolutions within the university, they have jeopardized the revolutionary capacity of the university in the real world outside. Tearing down universities over symbolic issues is lunacy. If such spastic revolutions succeed in provoking a real repression in this country, the question of radical change in America will be settled for a long time to come...

Author: By David I. Bruck, | Title: The Agony of the American Left | 3/25/1969 | See Source »

...grab bag of Restoration drama. Unfortunately, all his hand touched upon was an endless array of frenetic entrances and exits. Aside from a few minor characters, his players still must wander about with an air of frustrated gentility. All that excitement, but so little vigor--rather like a spastic with anemia...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: She Stoops to Conquer | 12/14/1968 | See Source »

...Junie, who set up platonic housekeeping together, squabble amiably, seek work, vacation at the seashore and, in various ways, find love. Presumably, such a book would have to be filled with novelistic bravado to lift it above the humdrum. But since Warren is a paraplegic, Arthur a near-spastic and Junie a hideously deformed victim of an acid attack, the atmosphere is already painfully tense. The challenge for the author is to keep everybody's emotions-his own, his protagonists' and the reader's-from getting out of control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Challenge of the Bizarre | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

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