Word: trios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a voyage of more than five months and 248 million miles, the first of a trio of terrestrial ships made its rendezvous with Mars late last week. Precisely on schedule, the 1,300-lb. U.S. Mariner 9 fired its retrorocket and went into a looping orbit around the red planet, swinging as close as 800 miles to the Martian surface. With that successful maneuver, controlled entirely by its onboard computer, the $76.8 million windmill-shaped robot became the first man-made satellite of another planet. As pictures of the dust-obscured Martian surface began reaching earth, delighted mission controllers...
...meaning and menacing in their silence, which perhaps befits an age of uncertainty. In Old Times, he returns to his favorite human geometry, the triangle (in this case, two women and a man), and examines the tricks that life plays on memory and memory plays on itself. The trio will be acted by Robert Shaw, Mary Ure and Rosemary Harris. From the front rank of American playwrights, only Arthur Miller is currently scheduled for production, with a new work titled The Creation of the World and Other Business. Miller calls it a "catastrophic comedy." He also has a revival coming...
...needs. Elkin is even less appropriate for Daniel, who's always searched for someone "courageous and resourceful"; but Daniel sacrifices his dreams for the reality he's got. The only Sunday people who don't in some way, sacrifice hopes and ideals are the Hodsons, friends of the trio, for whom Alex and Bob babysit one weekend. They are wealthy enough to be contentedly radical in a socialist state (and in, to be sure, an academic environment). But they are so godawfully cocksure of their goodness and honesty that, while they do care for others, they usually run them down...
...Hirsh's house. For the most part, however, Schlesinger has not overpowered his script, but served it. With the aid of Peter Finch (Daniel), Glenda Jackson (Alex), and despite the too-callow Murray Head's Bob; with Mozart arias on the soundtrack which give musical dimension to the trio's cultural separateness; and with graceful camera plotting which tie the characters to the shape of their environment, be it park or townhouse. Schlesinger serves Miss Gilliatt inspiredly well...
There is a final question some audiences will undoubtedly ask: Why make the trio a bisexual one? But that artistic decision simply deepens Hirsh's aloofness, and the doubtfulness that he will ever achieve the sort of earthly happiness that Alex works for. By portraying a man so socially limited, Schlesinger and Gilliatt heighten their point's effectiveness...