Word: woolf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this conclusion after noting the behavior of a group of women who gathered in front of a police station after a rape suspect was brought in. They screamed: "Give him cancer." Writes Hamill: "It is at those moments that you understand that Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is, after all, a play about counter-insurgency...
...number of ways, Bri and Sheila are British cousins of Virginia Woolf's George and Martha. Like George, Bri is a teacher; like Martha, Sheila has been promiscuous and may still be. Along with an abrasively ironic war of words, both couples play games of cut-throat tomfoolery. At play's end, Bri tries to kill Joe-a child who is almost as mythical as the imaginary son in Woolf-and when that fails, he leaves his wife. An original in its own right, Joe Egg owes no dramatic debt to Albee's masterly play-yet both...
Cinematically, the chief influence on Nichols remains the photographer of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Haskell Wexler, also cameraman on In The Heat of The Night. When the sun shines, Nichols points his camera at it; if a car approaches the camera, Nichols bounces the headlights off the lens; should a character jump into the water, Nichols makes the camera jump into the water; and as mood becomes essential, well, Nichols can always shoot it with a shaky hand-held camera...
...which he emerged as a humorous and generous-minded man, sharply aware of the currents of history, and a man, moreover, of liberal sympathies and considerable intelligence. Also, Publisher-Politician Macmillan could write better than any contemporary politician except Winston Churchill and better than any publisher except Leonard Woolf. All these qualities are alive and present in his long second volume, which records six dismal years of World War II in far from dismal fashion...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf? showed that Director Mike Nichols, in his Hollywood debut, could make a film that was a succes d'estime, de scandale and de box office. The Graduate, his second screen effort, unfortunately shows his success depleted...