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...tour de technique, the show is fascinating. Sometimes an actor shows up on the stage, sometimes on one of the screens. Once, when the hero tries to find him, the villain darts elusively from one screen to another. Sometimes the live actors slip behind the main screen, which is transparent, and appear to play parts in the picture. The actors in the picture meanwhile play parts on the stage. When the live actors sing at them, they sing back. Sometimes the same figure sings from three screens at once. Sometimes each screen is a different color. Sometimes all are black...
...Stamp Act: the British Parliament wanted more power over the colonies than the colonies were willing to allow. But later historians were not content with this sensible explanation. George Bancroft turned the war into a moral crusade for freedom and made poor old bumbling George III a sinister villain. Arthur Schlesinger Sr. saw the war as a class struggle in which colonial merchants were pitted against colonial proletariat. Then, in the 1950s, Edmund and Helen Morgan astonished the historical community by declaring that resistance to the Stamp Act was, after all, the cause of the war. Historical interpretation had come...
Expendable Elements. It is doubly rare for a writer of Cozzens' cast of mind to write about childhood at all, when human life, in his terms, is at its very worst. Childhood itself is the villain in these stories, and the thoughts of youth are wrong, wrong thoughts. With these ground rules in mind, Cozzens' stories can be read as thoroughly enjoyable entertainments, watching how Cozzens deals with what might be called the expendable elements of child nature, and how he sets about getting boys to behave -as little boys were once told to behave -"like little...
Still, one can easily see why the main role has attracted so many players. (Kean, the foremost 19th-century Richard, started work on it at 13.) It is a "star" vehicle for virtuosity. Richard is not only an arch-villain; he is also a consummate actor himself, with an instinct for histrionics and theatricality. Like Iago (for which he served as a preliminary study), Richard takes as much delight in the efficacy of his acting techniques as in the evil deeds he commits (which include eleven murders...
...from again," the lads in Union Blue board a river boat where they reconnoiter a contingent of bawds house-mothered by Joan Blondell and infiltrated by Stella Stevens, a Confederate spy. As an anti-hero of such indolent disposition that he lets a lady in distress fend off a villain singlehandedly, Ford appears bemused when he should be amusing. Douglas looks plain uncomfortable, and well he might. He gets caught under collapsing tents, heads a sandy downhill charge sitting on skis made from barrel staves, finally leads his men-all wearing nothing but droopy long underwear-in a rampageous free...