Word: vic
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Missilery & Mouth. Missilery, muscle and mouth are the keys to the Rangers' resurgence. Jean Ratelle, Rod Gilbert and Vic Hadfield constitute the deadliest line in the league. Center Ratelle has 30 goals and 45 assists, ranks No. 2 in the league in scoring (behind Chicago's Stan Mikita). Right Wing Gilbert trails Ratelle by one goal; and Left Wing Hadfield, who missed a fifth of the season with a broken shoulder, has contributed 19 goals and 19 assists. For muscle, there is Reggie Fleming, a stocky "bad boy" who has spent 122 minutes in the penalty...
...father in The Price, a wealthy businessman ruined in the '29 crash, has been dead for 28 years. During the Depression, one son, Vic (Pat Hingle), elected to stay and help support the old man by joining the police force, thus sacrificing his ambitions, his college degree and a potentially promising scientific career. The other son, Walter (Arthur Kennedy), left home and became an eminent surgeon. Estranged for all that time, the two brothers have not seen or spoken to each other for 16 years. Now the cop has summoned the surgeon so that they can make a mutual...
...Before Vic and Walter confront each other, a Jewish-dialect comedian totters onto the premises in the form of an 89-year-old furniture appraiser. Gregory Solomon, a kind of pickle-barrel philosopher, is as welcome for comic relief as he is dramatically irrelevant. As he haggles over the value of the furniture, Solomon (Harold Gary) makes wry, mocking comments about the family, marriage, his business competitors, serving as a kind of one-man Yiddish Greek chorus...
Haggling turns to fencing when the two brothers begin to run hot words through each other in recrimination over the past. "You had a responsibility here and you walked out on it," charges Vic. "There was nothing here to betray," counters Walter, revealing that their supposedly broke father had $4,000 stashed away. In effect he accuses Vic of submitting to their father's exploitation, and tacitly suggests that the desire for self-sacrifice can be equally as corrupting as the yearning for success...
...ideas are certainly challenging enough, but Miller has failed to give them enough dramatic substance, substituting instead a logjam of self-justifying tirades. The lives of Vic and Walter, and the price they paid for their choices, are merely described, not dramatized. By contrast, Willy Loman's fate had an anguishing impact because of the subtly manipulated flashbacks in Death of a Salesman, which brought key moments of his personal history to overpowering and believable life on the stage...