Word: broadsword
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Huston, one formerly to whom much honor was due, filmed this woeful tale and even subjected his own daughter to it. Dale Wasserman set it down in words taken by Hans Koningsberger from his own novel, perhaps with a broadsword. Moshe Dayan's son traveled all the way from Israel to take part. These all have conspired together to produce this thing, and all must share equally in the blame. There is, truly, more than sufficient for each...
...omnipresent picture is death -by warlord's broadsword or Japanese bombardment, by starvation or, simply, "in gusts of senseless cruelty." The end result is shown in the present generation of young girls caroling: "Last night I dreamed of Chairman Mao." Teddy White also sees visions of the Commu nist revolutionary he remembers from the 1930s and 1940s. A film of Mao to day comes into view while the voice-over narrates: "His aging mind still lusts for permanent strife; the theme he preaches to old and young alike is hate...
...optometrists consider him terribly myopic, but time after time he has proved himself dazzlingly farsighted. In the 1930s he introduced besuboru to Japan by bringing Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmy Foxx and Lefty O'Doul to the Orient for a barnstorming tour. An ultranationalist fanatic later hefted a broadsword and hacked a 16-in. scar into the left side of his head for permitting foreigners like the Bambino to desecrate sacred Meiji Stadium, but Shoriki went on to form Japan's first professional baseball league. In the early '50s he popularized television by planting 220 receivers...
Henry IV, Part 1. Nicely balancing Shakespeare's broadsword heroics against his tankard humor, Manhattan's Phoenix Theater offers a play that in modern times has not always fared well with big names, here does an attractive job without...
...virtues of the Phoenix Theater's lively production is that, as staged by Stuart Vaughan, it keeps a happy balance, values its martial clang and stir, sets broadsword heroics against tankard humor, and is never for a moment a one-man show. But it is no less a virtue of the current production that Eric Berry's robustly nimble and resourceful Falstaff is by all odds the play's best-acted role. Donald Madden's Hotspur is properly dynamic too, though it substitutes mere energy for fire and dash. As Henry, Fritz Weaver makes a well...