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...youth knew, if age could: the theme resounds in the crossfire between past and present until, in a series of an-tinostalgic metaphors, each of the stars takes off the public mask and appears in his own Folly. It is a vaudevilification of their benighted circumstances, in which the truth shines like a spotlight. For the first half of the evening, the stage has been shrouded in melancholy: dim lighting, failed hope, blunted ambition. But in the intensely personal, Ziegfeld-like "Loveland" sequence, lights and color suddenly challenge the eye, an umber paintbox opened in the sun. This visual dazzle...
...expressed by Segal, the two are distributing their pamphlet at Harvard and Radcliffe and will be conducting interviews with students during the next few weeks. The data from the interviews will be incorporated in a book called The Basic Haman Issue -an examination of the way people attempt to mask their innate egotism while deluding themselves that they are unselfish, according to co-author Paul Treegarden...
...Sparkish, Christopher Harding speaks in a falsetto and moves with a flourish which fully exploit the affectations of his role. He offers an excellent contrast to Pinchwife, played by Richard Minturn, who makes his face a sour, frowning mask that states his personality. Pinchwife is as overly protective of his wife's honor as Sparkish is negligent of Alithea's. Keeping his country wife under lock and key. Pinchwife confidently declares, "I understand the town." The audience takes enormous delight when the young, inexperienced Margery defeats the old coot, who thinks himself so wise...
Donning a gas mask to protest police gassing tactics, she joined longshoremen picket lines with Zara du Pont, an activist member of the chemical clan. She also conducted campaigns in behalf of the League of Nations, and once ran for Congress on a pro-labor ticket against John McCormack...
...there was nothing wrong with Quixote's vision; the chase animates man, and his windmills just might be giants. But reality eventually intrudes on every vision, and They Might Be Giants is a dismal end for a conceit that may have seemed promising at birth. The pretense cannot mask the film's pusillanimous ideas. They might be giants, but in truth they are not even windmills. Just wind...