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...Governor's shoulders. Congressional obstruction--until this week--has prevented all but piecemeal federal aid to local school systems. As a result Governors have been forced to go before their legislatures begging for money, forced to haggle with entrenched nineteenth-century types for higher taxes, forced to portray themselves in the voter's minds as the officials who personally raise their taxes...
...DEFENDERS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis portray members of a jury who make a dishonest decision...
...shame that Godard never realized the "feminity" he manages to portray goes deeper than Anna's wish to have a baby--the flimsy device upon which he hinges her infidelity. It goes way, way down to an unshakeable confidence in her own desirability, and with that, to the secret knowledge that she can get away with anything...
...performed." Why this confusion? To my mind it is a result of a fundamental misconception about the nature of theatre. All drama is action; all action is gesture of one sort or another--physical, verbal, and psychological. The way to bring a play to life on stage is to portray as much of its essential action as possible. If plays were merely "words," as Mr. Gordon would seem to have them, what would the point be in performing them...
Fish from the Freezer. Uncomfortable the viewers most certainly were. Albright, who was tapped by Hollywood to portray Dorian Gray in his penultimate desuetude, collects adjectives like "loathsome," "gruesome," "morbid," "putrescent" and "repulsive" the way other painters collect gold medals. But, he protests, "in any part of life you find something either growing or disintegrating. Let's say I'm equally interested in growth and decay...