Word: fray
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...hilariously garbled obscenities. A Saigon prostitute, blinking and cooing like a neon China doll, whispers rote nothings into our hero's ear; he thinks she's talking politics. A combat photographer boasts of the limbs he has lost in action and lures the reporter into the fray. "These flights are ab-stract!" he exults as the bomber tails into its fatal dive...
Such an assault may be imminent. Evangelist Jerry Falwell, leader of Moral Majority, whose sermons on television and radio reach an estimated 25 million people, plans to enter the fray early next year and is seeking allies among blacks, as well as Catholics, Jews and Mormons...
...first time, WEAL's national leadership joined the fray, with national president Carol B. Grossman calling the K-School "hard-pressed" to back up its case and saying she expects DOL to support WEAL's charges...
...guardian of learning, as expert, and as a critic or ideologue. If another category, the intellectual as activist, fits his model, Bell makes no attempt to make it readily apparent. Bell's "intellectuals" are the professors and the men of letters, the men who can conveniently transcend the fray. There is no room for a Michael Harrington, a Herbert Marcuse, or a C. Wright Mills in Bell's scheme. Indeed, much of The Winding Passage attempts to discredit these idealists--and succeeds. In method, Bell is a tantalizing combination of Muhammad Ali and Roberto Duran; he taunts, he baits...
...heretofore restricted itself largely to the comedies, which might account for the lack of emotional clout which mars the acting in this production. (We should at least give the company credit for attempting such a dark work, something the American Repertory Theater has yet to do.) Performances begin to fray at the edges of the company: Lloyd Morris portrays a terribly sappy Malcolm, and Henry Woronicz as Banquo has too much of that Ewell Gibbons pleasantness to be credible in this nuthouse. The weird sisters, too, seem strangely mundane, more like a couple of Cockney flower girls who got lost...