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...weaker moments. When Vindice again draws forth Gloriana's skull--this time as a weapon to poison the Duke, who unsuspecting that she is only a "shell of death" will try to steal a kiss from her in a dark corridor--he handles the scene with a deft blend of madness and humor that make the murder believable and his vengeance justifiable...
...better than to have them demonstrating in the streets, probably they will be in both places anyway However, anyone seeing Petta Kelly, one of the Greens "non-leader" leaders on CBS's "60 Minutes" several weeks ago may well wonder about the direction of this party. Her fascinating blend of inspired idealism and personal charisma, anti-American venom and silence about the Soviet Union, adept fabrication of vivid political metaphors and cliches, all of which qualities could be placed in the service of exceedingly unstable policies...
...month after shooting their last scene, these men and women-the M*A*S*H actors, writers and producers-are emerging from an experience that for some of them amounted to an eleven-year blend of encounter therapy and bootcamp. "I'm totally exhausted and depressed," sighs Farr. Says Swit: "I feel as if I've never not done M*A*S*H." Ask them what the show was, what made it unique, and you get a jumble of answers and impressions. From Alda: "The audience made a pact with us. We could be as imaginative and exploratory...
...task is to rekindle the tradition, to search in our system for people of great character and then bring them to power and rally behind them; not blindly, to be sure, but with understanding and even sympathy and tolerance. Character like Washington's is not a blend of everything that is perfect. In fact, we have not done too badly through 39 men who became President. Even today, in the midst of great national worry, the quality in the presidency that helps keep a beleaguered nation together is the character of the man we glimpse in the White House...
...actress, set to life. The playwrights, Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin, combine drama and poetry to explore all the problems and possibilities of communication between a MAN (Kelvin Kerage) and a WOMAN (Maryann Bergonzi). Itself an experiment in communication, this stylistic compromise of genres achieves a rare and successful blend of sensitivity and irony...