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...then starts soaring-into genetic fantasy, into a precognitive dream of delirium and delight. Madness is its subject and substance, style and spirit. The film changes tone, even form, with its hero's every new mood and mutation. It expands and contracts with his mind until both almost crack. It keeps threatening to go bonkers, then makes good on its threat, and still remains as lucid as an aerialist on a high wire. It moves with the loping energy of a crafty psychopath, or of film makers gripped with the potential of blowing the moviegoer's mind...
...order Candidate Charles Marsland easily won the post of Honolulu prosecuting attorney by vowing to crack down on hoodlums. A sample of his campaign rhetoric: "What was once the paradise of the Pacific is now a jungle prowled by thieves, pimps, prostitutes, robbers, rapists and murderers." United Air Lines and other carriers serving Hawaii have pledged to help law enforcement by flying victims of violence back to the islands free so that they can testify in trials...
There are debts to Max Ernst in the early collages of the '30s, and more subtle references-as in a dialogue between equals-to Marcel Duchamp in the boxes; sometimes Cornell would crack the glass panes that protected his images, in homage to the cracks in Duchamp's Large Glass. But the effect was much more violent, since-in a piece like Habitat Group for a Shooting Gallery, 1943-it suggested the rupture of a sanctuary, an attack upon Eden. The glass pane of Cornell's boxes, the "fourth wall" of his miniature theater, is also...
...London, with out side work negotiable. The pay is short (from $208 to $960 a week), and the training is rigorous. Besides daily rehearsals, actors may log time in movement, fencing and dance classes, as well as brush up on voice and language with the R.S.C.'s crack vocal coach, Cicely Berry. "You've got to make Shakespeare sound so new-minted you could almost hear it in the street," says Judi Dench. Sinead Cusack, who is ending her first Stratford season, says of her earlier work in film and television: "You don't learn very much...
Becky Rogers has run in some pretty interesting places. This Thursday the captain of the women's cross-country and track teams and six of her teammates will travel to Seattle, Washington, for a crack at the national championships, set for November...