Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Selected and translated by STANLEY KUNITZ with MAX HAYWARD...
...text. The only scene placed in England, which comes well towards the end, is the single instance where its three main participants show a full feeling for the melody and rhythm of their lines as well as the sense. Praise, then, for Michael Levin's Macduff, Alvah Stanley's Ross, and, above all, Philip Kerr's Malcolm. In this colloquy these three men talk to each other, listen to each other, and demonstrate their musicality. But it is a long, long time before we get to this beautifully spoken scene...
David Rounds brings plenty of verve to the role of Lucio, the quick-witted, cynical, slanderous libertine who bridges the gap between the aristocracy and the rabble. Wyman Pendleton imbues the aging counselor Escalus with warmth. And Alvah Stanley, with axe, rope and chains, is properly intimidating as the executioner Abhorson--a unique name that Shakespeare fashioned, in the manner of the pivot-word so common in Japanese poetry, by fusing 'abhor' and 'whoreson...
...admittedly pornographic materials be imported from abroad or carried on interstate public transportation for personal use? In 1969 the court held, in the case of Stanley v. Georgia, that a citizen had a right to enjoy anything he liked, no matter how obscene, in the privacy of his own home. But it did not give an individual the equally unlimited right to buy (or sell) such material. It ruled in 1971 that the Government's power to regulate trade entitled it to ban the importation or transportation of pornography for commercial purposes. In one of the cases now before...
...indeed imagine Collier's Paradise Lost as a superflick, called All About Eve II, or 4560 B.C., done in the style of Stanley Kubrick. Collier has spent his 40-year literary career variously in England, the French Riviera and Hollywood. He has long believed that the cinema has not taken full advantage of its potential for fantasy, and he has thought about Paradise Lost as a film for years. "Milton was one of the greatest science-fiction and space-travel writers," he explains. "Satan flies through the whole universe, after...