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...beginning readers, the computer combines high technology with the tried-and-true game of Hangman. Called Raise the Flags, this program features a sprightly, beaked electronic being named George who introduces the alphabet and a series of flagpoles. "My job is to spell a word," writes George. "Your job is to guess it." George gives the player a category such as food or nature, the number of letters, and seven guesses. After the player hazards a letter, George ambles across the screen to the proper place, peers down, and then shakes his head yes or no. If yes, he raises...
Although the comedy in this play is of a strange sort there is still a wonderful collection of clowns. Pompey (Peter Ginna) is a gangly, very funny fellow, particularly when paired with the troglydite hangman David Van Taylor. Sam Samuels utter perfect obnoxiousness turns the foppish Lucio into a narcissistic climber. And Bill Rauch has a short but memorable cameo as the incompetent officer Elbow...
...used to steal a lot and run with a gang," and figures he would be in stir today if he had not beat out 205 other drummers at a Clash audition. Out of the pieces of a shared precarious existence, the Clash has fashioned music of restless anger and hangman's wit, rediscovered and redirected the danger at the heart of all great rock. - Jay Cocks
...apparently taken the white uniforms off the Nestle milk nurses, but it still ememploys such persons to peddle its products. This action is like taking the uniforms off the members of a firing squad, or the hood off the hangman...
Jack Nicholson plays the role of Henry Moone with an unmistakable relish that suggests self-indulgence as the major appeal of the part. Moone is a bank robber and horse thief whose neck is scheduled to be caressed by the coarse noose of a hangman's rope, as reward for his many trans gressions against border town society and the upstanding folks of Longhorn, Texas. An ornery sort by nature, Moone greets the attending man of the cloth at the gallows with an irreverent "Go to hell." This kind of gutter humor holds the film together during the ensuing...