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...recognize. Sometimes the metaphor of syphilis becomes obsessive, which makes the devil's session before God too long, redundant and plain boring. As the devil himself observes, "You can take a lot of crap as long as you can communicate." His soliloquy is laced with pseudo-scientific clap-trap that is arresting only because Kenneth Demsky's tremulous head, clubfooted hitch and fine, brooding elocution fascinate...
POLITICAL statements in the form of social realism sometimes tend toward the heavy-handed; once made, the author's point is frequently pounded into the audience until the art form loses any claim to verisimilitude. In an effort to avoid this trap--and Stalin's censors, since The Dragon was written in the Soviet Union in 1943--Yevgeny Schwarz has turned to allegory, drawing on the Russian folk tradition to disguise a commentary on his country. Dragons, heroes, talking animals and flying carpets people his work, giving his play an outward simplicity that underlines his final statement...
...LOVE-SICK MAN is a helpless ninny, marriage is a trap baited with blackmail, the jester is bound to end up with his head on the chopping block--quite a few gloomy aphorisms might be gleaned from The Yeomen of the Guard. If the show's music--with its operatic flourishes--is among Arthur Sullivan's grandest, the libretto certainly represents W.S. Gilbert at his most despondent...
...once the star of kiddie cinema, thanks to Walt Disney confections like Pollyanna and The Parent Trap. Then in 1965, at the age of 19, Hayley Mills shed her moppet image by moving in with British Producer Roy Boulting, a thrice-married father of seven who was 33 years her senior. Five years later, the couple were married, and Mills bore a son. Now a ripe old 30, Hayley has come a long way indeed from her Disney days. Her latest credit: she has been named the "other woman" in a divorce suit filed by the wife of British Actor...
...some examples and facts without any of those bothersome philosophical definitions, he could reveal the essence of "madness in our time". The result is a huge mass of material, quite interesting in and of itself, but leading to a subjective nowhere, without form or guidance. In avoiding the trap of definitions, he has not freed the idea of madness from limiting perspectives; instead he has made it meaningless it its generality. An inquiry implies that there is a clearly perceived topic and aim: Going Crazy has neither, and we are left to our own conclusions about madness...