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...clearly Becket's greatness; at the same time we are permitted a glimpse into his madness. The four women of Canterbury play their roles with a vitality that does much to enhance the importance of their function within the play; unfortunately, however, the energy with which they weep and gnash their teeth sometimes has a way of obscuring the beauty of their lines...
...laugh at any mortal thing,/ Tis that I may not weep," wrote Byron. That philosophical fragment accounts for the duality of all black farce; looking between the cracks, one catches glimpses of hell...
They that go forth and weep...
...seven months wrote the 250,000-word manuscript. Drafts in progress were pinned to her husband's pillow at night with a note: "Mark an X where you get bored." Her neck became dislocated from the constant typing, but she remained so emotionally involved that she could weep while writing the execution scene. "I know it sounds affected, but after we had been together three years it seemed terrible that she had to go through all that...
Excoriate Viet Nam. Even hawks, let alone parrots, have learned to deplore Viet Nam by now, so this particular arsenal of invective doesn't stir up a Modcom audience as visibly as it once did. Time was when playgoers would weep on their armrests at the old "We won't go" non-fight pep talk...