Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down, then has the soles of his feet beaten. "If you refuse to confess or if you pass out," said Meletis, "they set you down with numbed feet on a cement floor on which cold water has been poured." But the worst torture, by his account, is electric shock treatment applied to various parts of the body, including the genitals. After four days of such torture, Meletis said, he broke down and told his interrogators what they wanted to hear...
Clearly, the producers of Julia are following the old nostrum: "If you can't lick the problem, sweeten it to death." By the standards of TV, this sort of treatment works; Julia is currently ranked No. 6 in the Nielsen ratings. Analyzing those numbers, NBC statisticians report that Julia attracts an "upscale" audience -more urban, wealthier and better educated than the average. There are no indications of either a boycott by Southern whites or heavier tune-in among blacks. Predictably, though, Negro militants are outraged. And, to be sure, Julia is rarely confronted with the tough problems of being...
Romeo and Juliet--Although Franco Zeffirelli's teen-age treatment of Shakespeare's situation tragedy may be somewhat free-wheeling for all tastes, sentimentalists will eat up every second. Olivia Hussey's reading of Juliet proves a truly right interpretation of the part. At the ABBEY, 600 Commonwealth...
...rather callous to talk about theatre (or anything, for that matter) in terms of numbers, but in a way this production lends itself to such treatment. Director Christopher Arnold has been pretty callous himself in his handling of these two fine Israel Horovitz plays, and I am still in the mood of the evening he created...
Romeo and Juliet--Although Franco Zeffirelli's teen-age treatment of Shake-speare's situation tragedy may be some what free-wheeling for all tastes, sentimentalists will eat up every second. Olivia Hussey's reading of Juliet proves a truly right interpretation of the part. At the ABBEY, 600 Commonwealth...