Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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POOR BITOS hinges on the visceral French political sport of right-baits-left. With more intellectual acuity than passion Jean Anouilh goes back to Robespierre to perform a masterly autopsy on the revolutionary mentality. As Bitos-Robespierre, Donald Pleasence is phenomenally good THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT, by Bill Manhoff, is as timeless as a Punch-and-Judy show and as timely as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Diana Sands as a sexy pussycat who claws and Alan Alda as a bookish owl who screeches, fill the evening with good, vulgar, neurotic laughter...
...Inner Station. Negotiations started in Nairobi, under the auspices of Kenya's Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta, chairman of the Organization of African Unity's Congo Reconciliation Commission. Posturing in his orange sport shirt among the mangoes and moonflowers of Jomo's garden, the rebel "Foreign Minister," Thomas Kanza, presented his conditions: hostages would live if Tshombe's Congolese army immediately halted its drive toward the rebel capital. That was tantamount to demanding a legitimate government's surrender to the rebels...
Fadden blames most of the football deaths that occur annually on faulty medical supervision. Rather than an inherent defect of the sport, fatalities are the fault of teams who neglect to have their players examined for physical defects, for weaknesses that could prove deadly in a sweltering late August workout or a jarring tackle...
...atrophies from lack of use and, weakened and vulnerable can easily be reinjured. Fadden estimated that it would take at least a month for the swelling in Mercein's thigh to subside, but even more time would be necessary for the Yale star to recondition himself for another sport. Fadden's own system is to build up the damaged leg until it is stronger than the healthy one, before pronouncing the player recovered...
Poor Bitos, by Jean Anouilh. A game played for real is either war or murder. In France, the game of politics is a visceral sport. Poor Bitos hinges on this sport, but American playgoers may respond more to its fascinating intellectuality than to its somewhat alien passions...