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...Night of the Iguana, by Tennessee Williams. In a play of nocturnal mood and meaning, Williams assembles a defrocked minister, a Nantucket spinster, a sensual spitfire and a nonagenarian poet on a Mexican hotel veranda, where their defeated dreams converge in an elegiac pattern of destiny...
...Night of the Iguana, by Tennessee Williams, makes a tethered lizard a symbol of the condition of man, while above it, on a Mexican veranda, Bette Davis, Patrick O'Neal and Margaret Leighton tug with poetic fury at fetters of mind, body and spirit...
...Night of the Iguana, by Tennessee Williams. The veranda of the Costa Verde Hotel is bare, but it steams with heat. It is like a raft in the green sea of the Mexican jungle, a vision of the end of the world for people at the end of their rope. Gradually, a quartet of life's castaways assembles. Maxine Faulk (Bette Davis) is the recently widowed proprietor of the hotel, a spitfire sensualist who regards her unbuttoned-to-the-waist body as her soul. T. Lawrence Shannon (Patrick O'Neal) is an alcoholic, defrocked minister who herds lady...
...iguana of the title is a giant lizard leashed under the veranda and clawing for its freedom-just as Shannon, the defrocked minister, is roped to a hammock during a mental crackup. Shannon and Hannah, the spinster, dominate the play, and break through to each other as they struggle with fetters of body and spirit. He tells her how he was locked out of his church for "fornication and heresy-in the same week." His revenge: loveless lecheries with teen-age girls, one of whom (Lane Bradbury) claws at his door with embarrassing anguish. Hannah tells him of pathetic fingertip...
...course, there were presidential responsibilities. A once-a-day plane brought top-priority papers from Washington; the President considered them, a lapful at a time, while sunning on the Hammersmith Farm veranda. In the den was a telephone tied directly to the White House, permitting him to talk to any place in the world at any time. During his Newport rest, that telephone did not ring often...