Word: unreality
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...other demands are equally distorted or unreal. The reference to Medical School building plans is not only inaccurate but simply untrue. The reference to "construction" of the Kennedy School of Government names a site where there is not the faintest intention of erecting any University facility. The Kennedy School, if it is accompanied at all in the new John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library complex, will find a place only in a combined international-public administration section hundreds of yards from the apartments in question. Both the sloppiness of the demands and the fact that they were in many cases addressed...
INVITATION TO A BEHEADING, as adapted by Russell McGrath from the Vladimir Nabokov novel, is not much of a play-the characters are unreal, the tension is nonexistent, and the humor is heavy. However, Joseph Papp's Public Theater production is an elegant example of inventive staging, costuming and ensemble playing that all but makes up for the script...
...understand. I could not accept the supernatural the same as anything else. It was inconceivable to me that one could cross the line between the real and the unreal, and dwell there. I could not see that one could merge his soul with a haunted quarry--to make a movie...
INVITATION TO A BEHEADING, as adapted by Russell McGrath from the Vladimir Nabokov novel, is not much of a play-the characters are unreal, the tension is nonexistent, and the humor is heavy. But Joseph Papp's Public Theater production is an elegant example of inventive staging, costuming and ensemble playing that all but makes up for the script...
...book that the great contemporary novelist, Vladimir Nabokov, wrote in the '30s, called Invitation to a Beheading. As this season's final production of Joseph Papp's Public Theater, it suffers from the dramatic deficiencies common to other people's dreams-the characters are unreal, the tension is nonexistent, and the humor is heavy. So, too, is the symbolism, for which Producer Papp seems to have a weakness, as in his last season's Ergo and The Memorandum...