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...imaginary monsters that have lurched forth in the past two centuries, none has frightened more people more often than the one sparked into life by the idealistic scientist Victor Frankenstein. Dracula retains his bite, to be sure, and has flapped into current vogue on stage and screen. But the overtones of the thirsty count's exploits are chiefly sexual, leading to titillation rather than thought. That is not true of Frankenstein's man-made man-monster. He troubles the mind because he is a projection of the mind, a soaring ambition shockingly embodied in flesh. Mary Shelley...
...Price, this quest involves two brothers. The only guilty parties are the past and life's cruel way of wasting lives. The critical event for Walter Franz (Fritz Weaver) and his brother Victor (Mitchell Ryan) was the financial castration of their father in the Great Crash of '29. Victor abandoned his natural bent for science and joined the police force to provide a se cure home for the old man. Unwilling to share that responsibility, Walter cut out, earned his way through medical school and became a successful doctor. His bad nerves are the price of ill-buried...
...Victor's sacrificial smugness serves to sweeten the bad taste of having lacked the will to rise to his potential. All this and more emerge in tirades that tend to drone when they should crackle...
Most of the troupe want peppier times. Says Soloist Victor Barbee: "Misha has proved that if he wants something he can get it. In maintaining the difficult line between the business and artistic sides of A.B.T., Misha won't give up quickly...
Parties with a particularly strong European commitment got out the vote and did better as a consequence. One notable victor was French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who in fact first proposed the idea for a Euro-election back in 1974. In the popular vote Giscard's Union pour la Démocratic Française outpolled Gaullist Leader Chirac's Rassemblement pour la République, by 27.5% to 16.3%. In parliamentary elections only 15 months ago, the Chirac forces had won 22.6% to the Giscardians' 21.5%. Chirac's poor showing...