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...Proposition, Boston's longest run, is on strike this week, and there's been more theatre on the sidewalk than inside, where a scab production has been put together...
...LONGEST YARD...
Basically, The Longest Yard is a cynical, often brutal, crudely stated movie that blends two seemingly unmixable genres-the slice of sadistic prison life and the equally ancient tale of an underdog football team conquering impossible odds to win the Big Game...
Ryan, the author of The Longest Day and The Last Battle, has cancer and in fact, until a dramatic remission allowed him to continue, expected to die before his book was finished. But not even such an affliction could stop his passionate research. A Bridge Too Far lists more than 220 books, articles and reports in its bibliography. The names of the British, American, Polish, Dutch and German soldiers and civilians he interviewed fill a 35-page appendix. A cast of thousands supplies quotes: from Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands to an acting mess sergeant from Surrey...
...longest story, "The Dawn in Erewhon," the hero, a Dutch philosopher, Adriaan van Hovendaal, who apparently actually exists, says, "Man has a history rather than a nature." And this story is Davenport's most comprehensive attempt to present that idea. But here the author fails, partially because he gets too pedantic, in both his language and his ideas, and partially because he shifts from the present action to an excerpted translation of van Hovendaal's works on Samuel Butler's utopic Erewhon and his own concepts of Utopia which are rightly described as "some of the strangest in modern thought...