Word: lincolns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This revival at Manhattan's Lincoln Center comes nowhere near achieving this. Under Director Milton Katselas, the production always hints at emotions that it never arouses, and is never deeply moving in the way that one knows the play could be. Only Jessica Tandy (the original Blanche Du Bois) brings into her Marguerite the authentic Williams tone of defeated gentility, of the violated heart, abusive in self-judgment and terribly tarnished by the world, yet untarnished in spirit...
...Geneva's new air terminal, the scene is a recurrent attraction: a bald and stubby executive clad in a redlined cape and a Pierre Cardin jacket buttoned to the chin clambers from a custom-built black Lincoln Continental. With him comes an eyebrow-raising entourage: one male aide and four mini-skirted lasses of Playboy pulchritude. The normally expressionless Swiss faces at the ticket counter light up with half-amused, half-respectful recognition. "It's Bernie," whispers a Swissair hostess to a new colleague. Taking at least two of his curvaceous companions with him, Bernie quickly boards...