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What endows Pinter with his immense theatricality also seems to stunt the scope of his mind and art. All the world's a stage, but the stage is not all of the world. The question remains whether Pinter, having amply proved bis ability to capture a particular mode and style of dramatic existence, can or will move on to describe more comprehensive states of being...
...m.p.h. whooshed the revolutionary, turbo-powered machine that had run away with the last "500" until breaking down eight miles from the finish. The driver: TV Comic Johnny Carson, 41, whose racing experience has consisted mostly of running after taxicabs in the rain. Carson came away from the stunt with (in descending order of surprise) his life, six usable minutes of film for his show, and increased respect for big-car racing. "Boy, you put your life in your hands every time you go out there," he said. "It's kind of like television...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The 21st annual Little League World Series game from Williamsport, Pa. (narrated by Ted Williams), and stunt flying at the Naval Air Show from Los Alamitos, Calif...
...shan't reveal how it's done. Suffice it to say that we are the victim of an ingenious, even brilliant, stunt. But we are so concerned over the prestigiation and sleight-of-body that we can give no heed to the play. We have become watchers at a mere carnival side-show. The audience's natural reaction to all this is recounted at great and amusing length in Walter Kerr's review for the New York Times. As Keats did not quite say, "Was it aversion, or a waking Dream?" At any rate, as he did say, "Fled...
...eggs are all coming from the drawing board of Pascal Häusermann, 30, a Swiss architect for whom the laying of ovals is not a stunt but just plain sense. For one thing, egg shapes distribute stresses equally, which means that the chicken-wire forms can be covered by a shell of concrete as thin as two inches. For another, the construction is so simple that a Häusermann house can be completed in two months, cost as little as $12,000. Most important, perhaps, is Häusermann's conviction that "the mistake of modern architects...