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Unlike American attacks on the press, which tend to come from the right and assail reporters as too skeptical toward government, Pravda lambastes London's journalists from the left, as tame toadies of deceitful politicians. The handful of reporters in the play who show glimmers of decency are hounded out of the trade or nullified by their editors or derailed by their own greed ^ and ambition. In the climax of the plot, the forces of virtue, somewhat tarnished themselves, are gulled into printing a libel that undoes their chances of stopping an evil publisher. Like too many journalists, these dubious...
Sellars is celebrated for controversial reworking of revered texts. But his new theater's premiere, directed by Timothy Mayer, is if anything too faithful and tame. Shakespeare's play depicts a civil war brought about by a usurper King and the self-serving pretenders to his throne. Some productions emphasize the martial valor of the King's ablest rival, Hotspur; others exult in the merriment and dissipation of the Prince of Wales' favorite companion, Falstaff. The closest that Mayer comes to taking a point of view is to underline the play's presumption that history is made...
...this all sounds like pretty horrible stuff out of which to make a light comedy, but Function is--if anything--too tame. Like all British comedy, the pace of this film seems as thick and trudging as cold plum pudding. Bennett spends the first half hour erecting the framework of setting and plot within which his characters work An American used to getting his hamour in rapid-fire bursts can find this very tedious indeed...
...modern orchestrational device of flutter-tonguing for flutes and brass is complemented by traditionally virtuosic writing for the solo violinist. Gubaidulina, 53, also evokes her Russian predecessors Stravinsky and Prokofiev, most strikingly in a passage of glissandi string harmonics that recalls The Firebird. By Western standards, Offertorium may be tame, but given the governmental restrictions on the stylistic range of Soviet music, it shows Gubaidulina to be a fresh, challenging voice in her country...
...THOUGHTFUT and farsighted voter, nothing could have been more chilling than the prospect of Ronald Reagan casting the next Supreme Court. Somehow though, this far-reaching concern got lost amidst competing claims about who could best tame the deficit or who would rein in the runaway arms race. Sure, the President mumbled something about how well he did with Sandra Day O'Connor and Mondale occasionally warned against the perils of Reagan court, but next to the obvious and immediate issues of budgets and bombs the Court received watcher put it. "For one of the most profound issues...