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Instead of letting himself be remembered for his great comedy, Martin has taken on the tough project of writing a quasi-compendious retrospective of scientific and artistic thought since 1904. In Martin's debut as a playwright, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Albert Einstein (played by Thomas Derrah) shows up at the famous Montmartre bohemian artists' hang-out the Lapin Agile. While working out theorems and waiting for his date to show up, Einstein meets Picasso (Bill Camp) who stumbles in hoping to be noticed and admired. At first distant and confrontational, the two great minds turn their sparring into...
Irony -- for which he has perfect pitch -- is his weapon of choice: "Alger Hiss always made his debut escorted by the Gods: He came to Washington with a reference from Felix Frankfurter and he went to Lewisburg ((prison)) with a reference to Frank Costello." In the sentence that opens an essay about one of his favorite subjects, the tragedy (or comedy) of the self-deluded rebel, Kempton dryly sums up another progressive hero: "Paul Robeson's was a career whose rise and fall were both tethered to his identity as a man of conspicuous color." Kempton's asperity...
...Crimson, however. Pitcher Frank Hogan, who picked up for Irving, pitched three and two-thirds solid innings, giving up only four hits and a run while striking out three. And freshman Terry Hurt, who had appeared in 15 games as non-pitcher, made his collegiate pitching debut a memorable...
...improved food labels make their supermarket debut...
Fifty years after his Broadway debut, Arthur Miller is back...