Word: suggestion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kind of catchall-22, a wastebasket version of antiwar cliches too feeble for use in the novel. While the production is securely mounted by the Yale School of Drama Repertory Theater, student actors are scarcely in evidence except as bit players. The professional credentials of the leading performers suggest that Yale is becoming a theatrical busman's holiday from off-Broadway...
Another body of his work exhibits concern with black dignity and traditional beauty. Here his colors are more restrained, his lines more elegant and refined. The paintings "Black Family," "And Still the Champ" [Muhammad Ali], and "Nude in Black" even suggest Modigliani. And several of his sculptures in the show are exquisitely crafted, such as "Black and Beautiful" and the delicately slim "Lovely...
...Walrus is ambiguous enough to keep you wondering how serious the Beatles really are. Richard Poirier, the reigning Beatles explicateur, said last month in the Partisan Review that "the Beatles' most talented member, John Lennon, has written two books of Joycean verbal play that suggest why no one is ever in danger of reading too much into the lyrics of their songs." So don't sell the allusions short...
...irritant than a dramatic advantage, and the occasional snippets of music seem too often either obvious or inappropriate. The actor's chief virtues are as objects rather than performers: Robin Woodard as Sally has an appropriately blank countenance, and a fascinating profile, which Edlestein uses repeatedly, often backlit, to suggest her mysterious vacuity; Hope Wilson as Kate is blessed with straightforward beauty and a rare up-from-under smile; Eric Sherman as John has a face which suggests a different value from every angle, by turns smug or harassed, depressed, or elated, dull or clever. Edlestein himself, playing Kate...
Statistics like these suggest that getting into Harvard may depend on what your alumni interviewer had for lunch. Which is not too far from the truth. Dr. Chase N. Peterson, now Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, says, "We are justified and obligated to trust a hunch...