Word: strandings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BARNUM AND KNOX complement each others' strengths again as Conchubar and Cuchulain in On Baile's Strand, but this play uses the relationship of two lesser characters, the Blind Man and the Fool, to equal purpose in commenting on the progress of Cuchulain's life. Peter Wirth and Joel Davidson succeed only partially in filling these two roles with intelligent but unrealized interpretations. Director Donnally Miller emphasizes the mutual dependence of the two half-men well enough, but the scenes where they're alone, ideal for comic improvisation, drag more than they should...
...totes Stella off on one of those lyric holidays by a deserted strand that have been a staple of English films since Room at the Top. This obviously calls for serious measures from Zee. Not even a ritual slitting of her wrists in the bathtub has any appreciable effect. With a gut instinct for elementary Freudian geometry (so thoughtfully supplied by Scenarist Edna O'Brien) Zee sets out to bed Stella herself and play out the triangle of X Y & Zee to its conclusion...
...Paul Strand's wide-eyed, Diego Rivera-like Mexicans stand in doorways and sit on doorsteps, as though sunstruck. Davis Pratt, acting curator of photographs at the Fogg, calls Strand "the greatest living American photographer," and the Fogg show has three examples of his sensitive portraiture...
...giving away dishes again like they did in the Depression." Too late. The price war is on, and in Detroit they are giving away dishes, while elsewhere there are "football widows' nights" on Mondays, "early bird" matinees, even free admissions on off days. San Francisco's Strand, for $1.25, offers a triple feature plus bingo. The nearby Regal one-ups it with four pictures for the price...
...photographs that survive from his last years, Piet Mondrian's own head began to verge on geometrical abstraction. The domed skull had its remaining hair brushed flat, each strand meticulously parallel to its neighbor; the two neat creases on the pale forehead; the paired circles of his spectacle frames, and the thin mouth joined with utmost precision to his beak of a nose by two engraved lines. It was the face of no compromise-austere and possessed by a forbidding moral rectitude. No artist ever looked more like his own work...