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...blame can be placed on the actors. Langmuir's direction is uncertain, and sometimes downright sloppy. His blocking, especially when there are more than a few people on stage, is awkward, and often destroys the fragile spell of Chekhov's language. He realizes that the lack of action in a Chekhov play can become oppressive, so he keeps his actors moving, but they move aimlessly and unnecessarily, and simply make us feel uncomfortable...
Beach said the key to his game plan will be manpower. "We'll need players to spell winded players on offense and move in when the starting clawing, aggressive, ball-hawking man-for-man defense gets in foul trouble," he said...
...were some stunning surprises. Predictably enough, Chou occupied Lin's No. 2 position. But No. 3 turned out to be none other than Mao's wife Chiang Ching. She was one of the reddest of the Red Guard leaders during the Cultural Revolution, and her rise may spell new power for the small nucleus of relatively youthful leftists in the Politburo. One of its key figures is Yao Wenyuan, who is rumored to be Chiang Ching's son-in-law and is Peking's new press and propaganda chief; another is Chang Chun-chiao, party boss...
...active in international affairs and deals with real problems, it can no longer settle for simply striking a pose and feeding a shrill ideological statement to Peking radio. It will have to make decisions and take actions, and more often than not that will mean compromise. In the long spell, practical politics in the pursuit of attainable goals could be the death of dogmatism in China. But, as University of Michigan Sinologist Alexander Eckstein notes, "We are still far from out of the woods with China." In other words, the men from Peking should be good for several spectacular seasons...
...skull here, the tinkling of a mystical bell there, the rhythmic beat of the conga drum, and the calling voices in the background all weave a pattern that leaves the listener spell-bound. Dr. John didn't learn to play the guitar in a bar on the South Side of Chicago but from Sister Eunice at The Temple of Innocent Blood. And he didn't get his "soul" in Memphis, but from the bayous of Louisiana. Strange, very strange...