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George Hamlin has directed the Loeb's repertory company with a nice quick wit. Fast pacing coupled with the cast's flawless timing compensates nicely for what usually seems like too long a play. Wellchoreographed movement and extensive use of a back foyer and staircases give the production a visual variety not often found in a one-room...
Like much of Roman Polanski's work, The Tenant is a comedy tipped with poison. As in Rosemary's Baby or Cul de Sac, laughter comes as much from astonishment, even outrage, as it does from humor. Polanski has a carbolic wit and discovers unplumbed depths of amusement in emotional deformity, physical abuse and psychic shock waves. If Chinatown found Polanski in a slightly more mellow mood -owing probably to the keyed-down romanticism of Robert Towne's screenplay-The Tenant shoots him right back to the center ring of his absurdist circus...
Stevenson is a hardworking, able Senator whose popularity in an industrial Northern state would balance Carter's rural Southern background. Elected to the Senate in 1970, Stevenson is less experienced than some of the other prospects and lacks his late father's wit and verbal flair...
...calm good sense and dry wit have made Kirbo something of a legend among the Carter staff members; they offer him deference mixed with affection. Says Carter's media director, Gerald Rafshoon: "Charlie never plays any roles, any games. He never tries to impress anybody. All the rest of us need something from Jimmy. Kirbo doesn't want anything. He's the only guy I know who could walk away from all that power. If Jimmy ever got bigheaded, the first guy to straighten him out would be Kirbo." Then Rafshoon adds wishfully: "Boy, would I love...
...dissenting petition last October. Said they: "We [shall not] be able to preserve by mere force that vast continent and that growing multitude of resolute freemen who inhabit it, even if that or any other country was worth governing against the inclination of all its inhabitants." With typical wit, Fox made the same argument to Lord North in the House of Commons: "Lord Chatham [government leader when Canada was taken from the French], the King of Prussia, nay, Alexander the Great never gained more in one campaign than the noble Lord has lost. He has lost a whole continent." Colonel...