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Something Wild, as Hal Scott says in his opening declamation, is about decadence. Scott and his HDC'ers stay well within this theme--no difficult feat with Tennessee Williams--yet accomplished acting makes these three short plays represent more than decadence: each becomes, with skillful handling, an escape into freedom...
Obviously, despite the prevailing decadence, Something Wild offers a great deal of variety, both in theme and in tone. The costumes and sets are simple; but their starkness is the key to their effect. The jazzy musical background is usually effective. With the exception of a little mechanical following of...
A Kinsey litmus would probably show that the average Frenchman is no naughtier than most people, but French novelists have made his little delinquencies into one of the most readable of literary exports. To be sure, there are the existentialist writers who manage to turn sex into a measure of...
This spring formation flights over Moscow of Russian intercontinental jet bomb ers startled the Air Force into a second look at the jet fighters scheduled to take over U.S. air defense in the next few years. Last week a new production sched ule for Air Force supersonic fighters was revealed...
At a Kremlin reception a top Russian leader said to India's Prime Minister Nehru: "Your Excellency, we Russians make very good friends and nothing can separate us, but we are bad enemies, too-quite ruthless." Startled, Nehru paused, then replied: "We have no enemies. If there are any...