Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE. The inventive direction of Peter Brook and the superb performances of the Royal Shakespeare Company players as madmen in a masque make exciting theater out of Peter Weiss's philosophical drama...
...some are actually character sketches rather than genuine short stories: an aging bachelor lies his way out of the hospital so he can go home to his cat; an elderly executive dies after fulfilling his dream of visiting Dublin. But minor faults are more than compensated for by one superb story, A Love Match, which tells of an incestuous relationship between a brother and sister. Author Warner not only makes the reader feel wholly sympathetic toward the characters, but in the soft-spoken telling, their relationship seems to become almost commonplace instead of shocking...
...Farrell Page becomingly wistful in her short stint as The Banker's Beautiful (but now pregnant) Daughter. All the heroes were first-rate, with Doug Kenny particularly funny as gay Wild Bill. Other physical aspects of the production deserve credit, and certainly the direction can only be hailed as superb. The fault, then, lies in the play itself. Like the little girl, it is often very good and very sharp, and its humor and satire strike home. Its main flaw, perhaps, is that the three central characters really don't amount to much. Time drags on the Desert, even...
TWENTY DAYS, by Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt and Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. Illustrated with 300 photographs from the famed Meserve collection accompanied by a lively text, this superb big book has found new sources and new perspectives to describe the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, covers the period from the slaying until his body was laid to rest in Springfield...
...they were still within the white balloons. Impossible speeches like Robin's "Holy ashtray!!!" and his mentor's "You've done it again, chum," should not come off, but undeniably, they do. Credit must be given to West and Ward, but some mention should be made of the superb direction. Someone must have read a lot of comic books...