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...words are the President's own, but to parody Nixon's prose is to try to beat a master at his own trade. George S. Irving does a superb imitation in the role. Vidal vows that he will now abandon playwrighting. Thanks for small favors. ·T.E. Kalem

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Small Favor | 5/15/1972 | See Source »

GROUP SEQUENCES excelled above individual performances or movements. In one superb silouhette the dancers become a bouquet of budded plants slowly nodding in the wind as they grow. The curved bodies curl around each other and amalgamate in a group on the floor. The dance embodies the fury of the Orestian trilogy as two males slither from the group back into the wings...

Author: By Meredith A. Palmer, | Title: Dance--child | 5/11/1972 | See Source »

...their words add up to something extraordinary. Stark figures on an uncertain terrain, they are voices amid thunder, and the voices stick in the mind. Wiesel, who calls himself a Hasid, has done honor to his past with a superb piece of narrative artistry and -more important-with a stunning affirmation of life. Mayo Mohs

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Voices Amid Thunder | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

...Princeton is ever going to make a bid for the title, this is the year to do it. The Tigers have been building the present varsity boat for two years and are a superb, dedicated, and highly disciplined group. Every position is filled by a returning letterman and there are those observers who would rate Princeton the favorite in Saturday's race on the basis of the Tigers' 4-0 record...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Lights Tangle With Tigers | 5/5/1972 | See Source »

Joseph's troupe is also superb, always mirroring the unreality with which Rosencrantz and Guildenstern view the "real" world. Lauren Sunstein, as the sniffling and oft-abused Alfred, plays her small part exceptionally well, as do the other Players, whose near-wordless roles require remarkable agility and continually forceful expression...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern | 5/5/1972 | See Source »

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