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...personality. But the framing technique merely uses objects as convenient visual elements. And although close-ups coerce the attention better than any stake device, they imply a kind of psychological familiarity with the characters which the script doesn't provide. Close-ups do magnify Pleasence's incredible range of facial contortions. But a collective stage view served Pinter's ends better...
...chewing gum as he awaits his turn to speak. He begins slowly and softly, with a serene look on his face. As he goes farther into the speech, his drawl becomes more obvious and his words more forceful; he induces a given response from the crowd with his own facial expressions--sometimes an angry scowl--and his multiple hand gestures. As the day wears on and he becomes increasingly tired, he pushes himself harder, and this is often noticeable in his more sluggish rate of speach...
...Dust. But if Herzog is an emotional deadbeat, other characters have plenty of chutzpah. Herzog's wife Madeleine is the perfect man killer with her cold, carnivorous smile, her facial tic and gnawed nails; she strips Herzog of his bank account during the day, ridicules him into impotence at night; after meals she is in the habit of applying her lipstick while gazing at her reflection in a knife blade. Her lover, Valentine Gersbach, is an ex-disk jockey who loves to "yuk it up" with intellectuals, gives Herzog fatherly lectures on how to get along with his wife...
...Cartoonist Tom Flannery. "It has the look of one of those things on Mount Rushmore." Adds the Washington Star's John Berryman, who has been sketching Presidents since Calvin Coolidge: "Goldwater is perfect to draw. The glasses, of course, are his trademark, but he also has strong facial characteristics - a flat mouth, pearl-grey hair, a strong jaw and high cheekbones." Berryman, who tries "not to be vicious toward candidates," has so far produced the best Goldwater likeness...
Elizabeth Cole, as Mistress Millamant, has at least a perfect set of facial expressions. But on an area stage especially, an actress needs to express her character with her voice as well. Whenever Miss Cole turned her back to play to another section of the theater, she seemed to step out of character. Without her smile and arching eyebrow to suggest the grand coquette, she sounded like a girl reading intriguing prose...