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...almost by chance, in the widening network of information that the investigators were gathering. Their arrests seemed to confirm what many bankers and investors had long feared: in the frenetic climate of Wall Street's protracted bull market, insider trading had become a spreading stain with the potential to blacken the reputation of the entire financial community...
...fact, think of women as "whores," including his three wives. In brilliant but vitriolic plays like Miss Julie (an aristocrat lusts after her servant) and Creditors (hell in the shape of a triangle), Strindberg practices his own advice to other authors on the treatment of female characters: "Accuse them, blacken them; abuse them so that they haven't a clean spot--that is dramatic!" His second wife, Frida, an Austrian journalist, compared marriage to Strindberg to "a death ride over crackling ice and bottomless depths." There is little evidence that his first wife, Siri, a Finnish actress, or his third...
ANOTHER MAJOR disappointment also mars the performance. At the start of the show, a pink-clad troubadour emerges from a fanfare and a see of light. He holds up a scroll-like banner, announcing the name of the next skit. The house lights blacken, and seconds later Marceau, dressed in his far less elaborate white costume, poses in readiness on the exact spot that the troubadour held. How does he make this miraculous switcheroo? The audience finds out at intermission, when the Marceau look-alike troubadour comes out to take a bow with his boss...
What kind of man would hit a woman? Not only hit her, but blacken her eyes, break the bones in her face, beat her breasts, kick her abdomen and menace her with a gun? There is a very good chance that he was beaten as a child. Perhaps because of his early trauma, he is often emotionally stunted. Michael Groetsch, director of probation for the New Orleans Municipal Court, sees scores of accused wife abusers every week. "There is a very interesting analogy between a male batterer and a two-or three-year-old child," Groetsch says. "His tantrums...
IMAGES OF ENTRAPMENT recur: Boxes appear on stage, both as tables and as a way for the players to appear and disappear. The effective use of curtaining to exclude Rosencrantz and Guildenstern from the rest of the players, and the thorough if unimaginative use of lighting to blacken the set completely, emphasize the duo's--and the audience's--helplessness. Like the players in Hamlet, we feel as if we are on the fringe of the real play that is slightly out of our sight. At times we are plunged into total darkness and feel the same apprehensions as Rosencrantz...