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...later, Cassidy says, Sword "voluntarily provided to authorities a more detailed statement wherein he admitted the theft of approximately...
Winborn is correct in virtually each of his separate apprehensions of this film, but it is finally in this individual separateness, this unconnectedness, wherein his otherwise able criticism fails its won good promise...
...Wednesday evening, the American Repertory Theatre opened its production of Orton's What the Butler Saw. In the script, Orton's cleverness, if not outright genius, stands unquestioned. He has a keen knack for dramatizing many of his favorite themes by "inverting" the common knowledge, wherein the normal--progressively through the show--becomes the abnormal and vice versa. His brilliant farce of late 60s English society leaves nothing sacred, not even the phallus of Winston Churchill...
...starts, we find ourselves in the Adams House Pool, where the baroque surroundings seem particularly applicable to this sort of thing. It is 1808, 15 years after the murder of Marat. A row of prison bars separates the audience from the stage, and at center lies the famous bathtub wherein Marat took his last breath. Except, in this tub lies a neurotic asylum patient, playing Marat. And all around him, the large cast of almost 20 twitching, dead-eyed, asylum inmates shuffle about, dressed in dirty white rags, talking to themselves and to their invisible friends. The four-member orchestra...
...there anything unusual about her spirit-of-the-age defense, wherein she insists that her deeds should be seen in the context of a time when many others -- she cites, for example, Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of the Pentagon papers -- were breaking the law. There is a certain moral gap between unauthorized leaking and armed robbery that this defense does not bridge...