Word: unevennesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only weak summer show is the contemporary exhibit which consists of works by enticing names like Mark Rothko, Kenneth Noland, and Robert Motherwell. These paintings are shown in a sick yellow light made uneven by baby spots. This would be disastrous for any paintings but especially these--most rely heavily on color impact. The only painting which looks decent Is one of Clyfford Still's; he was after horrifying color for his craggy paintings anyway...
...gentle dignity, a refined fragility that set her apart from the rather sordid affairs of her family. Laving floats in this play like a premonition of the woman Birdie will become--in The Little Foxes we see her twenty years later, trembling and broken after her uneven war of attrition with the Hubbard family, which she marries into--and both characters reflect aspects of Julia...
...this--which is most of the time--the humor tends to get lost in the melodrama. It isn't fair to blame the actors or the production entirely for what is, at least in Hellman's eyes, the failure of the play. The play is intended to be uneven, in the sense that it veers from comedy to tragedy, and it is often difficult for both the audience and the actors to keep up with it. As far as the acting, it calls for deft switches from mocking subtlety to intense passion. Ann Marie Beigel, who plays Regina, remains...
...Loeb's production, too, is uneven, but its unevenness is not in synch with Hellman's unevenness. Passion drowns the humor, subtlety mocks the tragedy. The mixture of farce and drama that appears with a clear, sharp brilliance in Hellman's restrained prose looks gaudy on stage. Perhaps there are some things that, even if they are true, should not be put in plays, or short stories, or any kind of fiction. In this case at least, the raw material has a compelling directness, an understated honesty that has been lost in the transition to finished product...
Reflecting the conference's long debates, the document led off with a reference to Third World rather than Western issues. Noting that "as a result of the uneven development which prevails in international economic relations, three-quarters of humanity is faced with urgent and pressing social and economic problems," the plan called for a "new economic order." It did not, however, spell out how to achieve...