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...taboo is often the touchstone of drama: in the profoundest Greek play, a man murders his father and marries his mother. Williams mesmerized as well as outraged playgoers with Orpheus Descending (murder by blowtorch), A Streetcar Named Desire (rape, nymphomania), Summer and Smoke (frigidity), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (impotence, alcoholism, homosexuality) Sweet Bird of Youth (drug addiction, castration), Suddenly Last Summer (homosexuality, cannibalism), and The Night of the Iguana (masturbation, fetishism, coprophagy...
...jungle. At its best, his dialogue sings with a tone-poem eloquence far from the drab disjunctive patterns of everyday talk. He is an electrifying scenewright simply because his people are the sort who are born to make scenes, explosively and woundingly. In Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Big Daddy jerks the crutch out from under his son Brick's arm and sends him sprawling in agony; a few minutes later Brick kicks the life out of Big Daddy by telling the old man that he is dying of cancer. Williams' vibrantly durable characters stalk the mind...
...incredible that in this age, people can believe, as the Scientologists do, that emotional and physical ailments can be cured with two tin cans wired to a galvanometer. Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard was a good science-fiction writer. He should have remained in that field. His worldwide followers should turn in their tin cans for recycling...
...used Landsat to reroute segments of their trans-Amazon highway around swamps and other obstacles. Anyone can purchase the photographs. Even the U.S.S.R. and China have bought them, sometimes of each other's terrain. Indeed, the program has been so successful in spotting resources-copper deposits in Pakistan, tin in Bolivia-that some nations have condemned the orbital photography as economic spying...
...last week he gave a great performance in a career marked by great performances. For the old ballplayer, his debut was one from the heart. "Once, I remember we went to a drive-in movie, and the blacks had to sit in the back on benches with a little tin roof overhead in case it rained. Memories like that make you want to do something for Dr. King...