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...plays of G.B.S., talk is the moral equivalent of war. Shaw's weapons are lancing wit and blazing rhetoric. He wages a holy war against middle-class hypocrisy, capitalistic exploitation, the ser vile status of women and humbug in all forms. In Misalliance Shaw argues that the time (1909) has come to blow up the family. In his view it is a web of contractual coercion masquerading as love and care...
...Time of Desecration is not extreme enough. Its materials call out for the purging effects of outrageous comedy. There is some bitter wit in Desideria's cold-eyed observations, but her force as a character is throttled by garrulous abstractions. She is convincing only when she is a sounding board for Moravia's feelings, most tellingly: "I had been bourgeois, I was bourgeois, I would remain bourgeois, forever...
...actors are a finely tuned collection of theatrical instruments, and, in his directorial debut, Actor Kevin Conway conducts the ensemble with symphonic finesse. He varies the tempos of wit, irony, lust, menace and shock deftly, and inter-culturally speaking, he certainly knows his oud from his oboe. -T.E. Kalem
...Lucas' identifies with one or more of his characters. In Star Wars there was a lot of Lucas in Luke, the wide-eyed farmboy who was always yearning for bigger things. In The Empire Yoda is his alter ego. Yoda's speeches might almost be called The Wit and Wisdom of George Lucas. Like Yoda, Lucas is a devout believer in the Force. Says Lucas: "When you are born, you have an energy field around you. You could call it an aura. An archaic description would be a halo. It is an idea that has gone...
...female nude. The photographers, most of them not widely known, have been adroit in capturing the absurdity and the glamor of the automobile, its allure as an emblem of commercialism, transience and sex, but the show's interest as a sociological record is overwhelmed by the force, wit and elegance of individual pictures. The strongest work is the product of sensibilities inclined towards the commonplace, the fragmentary, the unresolved, and the best photographs are frequently of nothing much at all. Duane Powell gets a peculiar, hovering beauty out of a telephone pole, the cresent...