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...goes back to a moment of sadness?and a sense of failure?when he was making his first record in London in 1968. A girl he knew died at the time, but his friends did not tell him until the record was finished because they thought he was "too strung out" to handle the news...
...actors moaned, groaned, hissed and made surrealistic animal noises. Do we think of Lear as an arrogant red-hotheaded old king, his own Fool's fool? Brook gave us the first ice-cold Lear, a man who fully understands that his predicament is to be a puppet meaninglessly strung from a sky without gods...
...unsettling kind of comic tearjerker. The various relationships are scarcely credible. It is impossible to believe that anyone as self-centered as the Von Furstenberg character could have nursed Evy through drinking bout after drinking bout, as she claims to have done. Maureen Stapleton gives a high-strung, neurotically personal performance, but we can never relate the woman onstage with the poster on the wall that says she once sang in Carnegie Hall. The Evy before us might be a suburban housewife in a severe funk. Stapleton's hysteria is totally convincing, though she speaks in a peculiarly strident...
...leaders are Steve Christensen and Bob Panzer. Panzer strung ten games together in his first round, while Christensen left his machine before finishing with a string of 11 games...
Letter is addressed to Hersey's fellow alumni, whom he upbraids for the "disturbing . . . gap in understanding between you and your Blue Mother." Upon a clear and reasonable narrative of last spring's events Hersey has strung a series of uneven but perceptive observations about young people. He finds them thirsty for moral leadership, not totally liberated about sex, "hyper-energetic," and capable of astonishing maturity when given enough trust...