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...protagonist, Iago, Christopher Plummer gives a shrewdly structured yet hearteningly scenery-chewing Performance--careful and nuanced enough to dispel Colerdge's nagging "motivelessmalignity" tag. At the start he is sleazily pthetic, a bundle of unchannelled energy expressed in random, hoarsely inexpressive shouts and struts. When not center stage he is erect and twitching against a back wall, his eyes glazed as if his brains were being barbecued. He is no Mahiavelli, but a quick-witted opportunist handed a turkey and a shotgun. Recongnizing this, his frame swells with cookiness. It's gestures become honed, and his voice pierces effortlessly through...
...Plummer could overpower a strong Moor, but James Earl Jones is the most oddly recessive Othello imaginable, laurence Olivier once complained while rehearsing his own exhasting Othello that the part was all climaxes. Jones sadly pretends they don't exist, as if rising to one would obligate him to go for them all. He enters with great dignity, immense and unthreatening grandfatherly, a solemn Buddha. His words seem to wigh as much as he does--they come out undifferentiated, as if he'd learned them phonetically (tough this is preferable to his occasional bursts of temper, when he speaks swiftly...
...make a grand horror film. Bary has devised some grisly and hair-raising swordplay, the air aswish with deadly blades as a drunken, robotized Cassio slashes anything on all sides; or the stunning moment when lago plants a kiss fully on Rodrigo's lips and knife between his ribs (Plummer is a murderouly bisexual monster). Then there are images worthy of Halloween: Desdomona, tiny and exposed before her night table, singing a bed-time song, with Amelia's sudden entrances from the shadows creating delightful frissons; Desdemona draped horizontally across the bed as Othello enters to kill her, her long...
...with Harvard," may have brought the perception of growing unruliness to Bok's attention, some masters indicated. Otherwise a hit-and-run piece, the article apparently drew blood when it charged that, "The only shared values [at Harvard] are sheer survival and self-gratification." The Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, used the Esquire allegations as a taking-off point in his opening sermon of the year, as he criticized the absence of priorities instilled in today's undergraduates. Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, also referred to Esquire's charges in opening remarks to freshmen. Whether...
...would offer a support system for minorities at Harvard, along the lines of centers at several other prestigious universities such as Yale, Princeton and Stanford. Bok acknowledged that the proposal merited investigation, and he formed a student-faculty committee to investigate it. He gave the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, the chairmanship of the committee...