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...those seven nights, Fellini guides the hero, a reporter (Marcello Mastroianni) who stands for Everyman, through successive stages of degradation. First the reporter casually leaves the girl (Yvonne Furneau) who really loves him and goes off with a rich bitch who seems to symbolize ancient Rome itself, the Great Whore of Revelation. Then he tries a popular sex substitute, a pumpkin-breasted, pea-brained Hollywood star (played by Anita Ekberg). On the third night, he covers a fake miracle involving a tree in which the Madonna has supposedly been manifested. When the miracle fails to transpire, the crowd attacks...
...fashioned such a personal idiom in German that his language has been called "a function of the body." The present translations need more body English. Even so, the volume is an excellent introduction to Brecht's restlessly animated evocation of life, in which his puppets-numberless versions of Everyman-dance to the Threepenny tune of Jonathan Peachum...
...Angry Silence. A sort of industrial miracle play in which Everyman finds salvation through a grease-smeared redeemer in the guise of a union-bucking machinist...
...Beaver Films; Valiant) at first glance looks like a remake, minus humor, of I'm All Right, Jack, and at second glance like an anti-union tirade. Actually, it is a vigorous attempt to fight the virus of conformity in modern society-an industrial miracle play in which Everyman finds salvation through a grease-smeared redeemer...
Rabbit, Run, by John Updike. A powerful and relentlessly depressing story about the crackup of an unspeakable Hollow Man whom the author perhaps mistakes for Everyman...