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...most noticeable shortcoming is an utter lack of a sense of humor. "Can Fulvia die?, "which is one of the most deliciously sly questions in literature, emerges as nothing more than a request for the salt. Actresses and directors are possibly misled by all the scholars who keep trying to increase the "four great tragedies" by one. We are not gripped by Antony and Cleopatra as we are by Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and Lear; we remain relatively detached. In fact, there is enough satire in Antony to make it possible to stage the work as Shavian high comedy...
...boxes, laminations, dovetails, locks, hinges and clamps with unerring finesse. The effect-as in the absurd log-cabin toy tower that rises, with a metal swan flapping from its crenelations, inside the box called Battle of Little Jack's Creek, 1970-is to convince you of the utter reality, the solid presence, of a completely surreal world, pinned and glued at all its joints and present in all its contradictions. He is a folkish artist (the varnished pine boards he uses, and the rigor of their joinery, are virtually illustrations of the American grain). From his constructions emanates...
...report's conclusions constitute a rebuke to Smith, whose popularity among Rhodesia's whites has been declining recently. Last week in Salisbury he called a press conference to denounce the Pearce Commission as "a complete and utter farce." The findings also present a dilemma for Britain. Conceivably, Prime Minister Edward Heath could ignore the report and go ahead with the proposed settlement-thereby risking a violent reaction from Rhodesia's black majority as well as a bitter parliamentary debate. The only alternative would be to go back to the drawing board in search of a new settlement...
...fully completed. She is literally missing part of her brain." The victim of a chromosomal abnormality, Tracy suffers from what doctors call "profound" mental retardation. At 21 months, she can neither walk nor feed herself, nor say the few words that most children her age have begun to utter. Her life expectancy is short...
...poignancy of Pritchett's early career lies in his utter isolation. Any kill he acquired was the product of reading or laborious trial and error. Joyce, Hemingway and Stein were in Paris when Pritchett was. He had never heard of them, nor had he any notion of what they were trying to do. After two years in France, he signed on as Monitor correspondent in Ireland-during the Troubles-and later went to Spain. He was so ignorant of journalism that for a while he was unaware that he could even approach government or political figures for interviews. Later...