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Perhaps the highest compliment that may be paid to their mutual work is that they raise Pinter's first full-length drama to virtually equivalent rank with such later, more lavishly acclaimed dramas as The Caretaker and The Homecoming. Actually, The Birthday Party seems to possess a more vivid symbolic imagery and a greater sense of motion than the other two plays. Like Waiting for Godot, although in a totally ominous sense, this is a play about waiting. Stanley (Robert Phalen) is a piano-playing recluse hiding out as a boarder in a small provincial town. The landlady (Betty...
...third work displays rebirth for the city, vivid with prayer and Biblical symbolism. The new structures are jagged but small, clinging to one another rather than pushing into the sky. Significantly, Lichtblau's city is reborn into the form of a village, a characteristic nostalgia...
...Less is more," Mies van der Rohe said, and even the architects are beginning to doubt it. In the theater less is less-and less, and less. The Age of Cool is a blight to the theater. Drama was born to be larger, more vivid and more intense than life. Beckett tells us that life is a drab, attenuated prelude to death. The vaudeville japes of the two tramps Didi and Gogo in Godot are supposedly the ways in which we all kill time before time kills...
...Holy Cross Quarterly devoted entirely to the Berrigans, Protestant Theologian Robert McAfee Brown tries to assess the symbolic importance of Catonsville. While most Americans bridled at a destruction of public records, Brown sounds a familiar?and simplistic?jeremiad of the antiwar movement: the act was intended as "a vivid reminder of what has happened to the collective conscience of our nation; we are outraged when paper is burned, and we are not outraged when children are burned." Near the end of the trial, the Berrigans joined the other defendants in a dramatic direct dialogue with the judge, arguing that...
...depicts, with its cocktail party intrigues and Picassos in the bathroom. There has never been a better-written and more informative description of film-making than Picture. It is also exemplary as a piece of journalism. Ross's acerbic style speaks forcefully throughout, combining novelistic narration and selectivity with vivid portrayals of the nuances of character...