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...Seasons, by Robert Bolt, probes the persistent dilemma of private conscience v. public duty and shows how Sir Thomas More, a sage, wit and Christian martyr, resolved...
What vitiates Perelman's wit is over-specialization. He has always been a deftly ironic autopsist of what is dead in language. But he is a coroner more of the written than the spoken cliche, so that The Beauty Part sounds as if it were printed on the stage rather than performed on it. Parody is, at best, a parasitic form, no stronger than the host body it is fastened to, and in this case the host is junky novels, flea-brained Hollywood scenarios, self-help journals, and ad jingles. Pop culture is turned into pop parody...
...coloring was drab, and he stood scarcely 5 ft. 5 in.-a full head shorter than O'Toole.) In his performance, O'Toole catches the noble seriousness of Lawrence and his cheap theatricality, his godlike arrogance and his gibbering self-doubt; his headlong courage, girlish psychasthenia, Celtic wit, humorless egotism, compulsive chastity, sensuous pleasure in pain. But there is something he does not catch, and that something is an answer to the fundamental enigma of Lawrence, a clue to the essential nature of the beast, a glimpse of the secret spring that made him tick...
college scene and the U.S. scenario for the cold war are peppered with scorn and assaulted with wit by an uneven and provocative critic...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf? leaves welts on a playgoer's mind with its savage wit and marital horrors. In this brilliantly virulent struggle of man and wife, Arthur Hill plays cobra to Uta Hagen's mongoose...