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ILLUSIONS ARE as central to the works of Tennessee Williams as they are to the life of Blanche DuBois, but there is nothing illusory about the appeal of A Streetcar Named Desire and its faded heroine. Only a very few pieces of American theater retain their power and excellence as does Streetcar, now nearly twenty-five years after its premiere, and it is, moreover, the rarity--a vehicle for actors which actually goes somewhere, propelled not by the air of its histrionics but the pull of its emotion. All of which makes especially regrettable the collision between the play Streetcar...
...Streetcar Named Desire, Brando's famous interpretation of Williams. Baker...
...Streetcar Named Desire. Ol' Ten'see Williams play, put on the screen with Marlon Brando directed by Elia Kazan. Feb. 11, 8:30 p.m., Channel...
...alternate weeks, the course replaces conventional classes with professional performances of excerpts from such plays as O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire and Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. Before each 15-to 20-minute performance, the students are briefed by an English professor on the theme of the play and by a psychiatrist on psychological traits to be observed in the characters. Afterward students, faculty and the actors themselves take part in a two-hour discussion...
...schools of law, portraits of U.S. Supreme Court Justices and Attorneys General adorn the walls. At the grimy University of Detroit law school, the hagiography runs to city and state judges. Housed in a factory-like building, the school has long been one of the nation's many "streetcar law factories," places that cater to ambitious students who lack the money or the grades necessary for legal training elsewhere. For those who use the law as a steppingstone to political careers, U.D. law has been particularly successful: its alumni include 56 judges, eight state legislators, Michigan's Lieutenant...