Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play's overall success in its Boston production with the Stratford National Company of Canada must be attributed to a remarkable acting job by Hume Cronyn, just as Alex McGowan's tour de force "made" the show in London and on Broadway. Cronyn is superb, biting off bittersweet epithets, swivelling quickly, daintily crossing his legs on the Papal throne, as a long cigarette dangles from his fingers. Cronyn's determined effort to project nuance into Rolfe's fantasies generate an ironic tension. He makes Rolfe more interesting than the play might lead us to believe...
...often gains a great deal. Director William Freidkin ( The Night They Reided Minsky's and The Birthday Party ) has wisely chosen to "open up" the play very little. What scenes there are outside of Michael's claustrophobic east Sixties apartment work well with Crowley's conception. And Friedkin's superb eye for seine detail and character groupings greatly augment the power of the screenplay...
Should Harvard get rid of Weiland? Hardly. He knows more about the game than almost any coach alive. He is a superb teacher, and has brought Harvard eight Ivy titles and an ECAC crown. He will probably retire soon, of his own volition. He is scarcely the biggest problem Harvard had this season...
...original Captain Belaye in London), the work produces unabashed delight in the mutiny, wholesale though ladylike transvestism, and twin marriages that follow, courtesy of W.S. Gilbert. As Poll, Charthel Arthur falls in love more energetically than anyone m recent memory. As dashing Captain Belaye, the man whose Apollonian suavity, superb condescension and sheer sexiness cause all the trouble, Edward Verso turns a comic role into a major characterization. One rude criterion for establishing a ballet's worth is the impulse to dance that it stirs in an average member of the audience. By that standard, Cranko's Poll...
...range and length, the book is satisfyingly cohesive where it might be sprawling. The key to this unity is Garcia Márquez's treatment of time. Consider the superb opening sentence: "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." Such compression of time makes the novel taut with a sense of fate. Atavistic dictates of blood must be followed. Premonitions invariably come true. A series of coded predictions, written when Macondo was still young, are deciphered only when every prediction...