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...organizational abilities were better appreciated on Broadway, where she produced A Streetcar Named Desire, among other plays. The New York stage chapters are perfunctory. Anecdotes, like Marlon Brando's fixing Tennessee Williams' plumbing, are sandwiched among routine theater business, tributes to friends and expressions of satisfaction. Missing are the two difficult men, father and former husband, who tempered the author's character and gave emotional texture to the earlier chapters. Having a life turn out well is a blessing, but conflict nearly always makes better copy than contentment. -By R.Z. Sheppard
...some as a kind of Southern gothic erotomaniac. Williams dealt in taboos, yet the taboo is often the touchstone of drama: in the profoundest Greek play, a man murders his father and marries his mother. Williams mesmerized as well as outraged playgoers with Orpheus Descending (murder by blowtorch), A Streetcar Named Desire (rape, nymphomania), Summer and Smoke (frigidity), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (impotence, alcoholism, homosexuality) Sweet Bird of Youth (drug addiction, castration), Suddenly Last Summer (homosexuality, cannibalism), and The Night of the Iguana (masturbation, fetishism, coprophagy...
...Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo), she also worked for Broadway and Hollywood, bringing back to the dance a concept of "total theater," the combined use of singing, dancing and acting in such ballets as As I Lay Dying, based on William Faulkner's novel, and A Streetcar Named Desire, a scorching version of Tennessee Williams' play...
...Scab! Scab!" they threw rocks and bricks at newly hired workers trying to enter the plant. Republican Governor Charles Thone was finally forced to summon 160 National Guardsmen to aid the 100 besieged state police. It was the first time that the Guard had been mobilized since an Omaha streetcar strike...
...Warsaw's claims of normality were buffeted on several fronts last week. In the western city of Poznan, site of the bloody "bread and freedom" riots of 1956, 194 protesters were reportedly jailed after marching through the streets bearing leaflets proclaiming DEATH TO THE REDS. In a Warsaw streetcar, a police sergeant was gravely wounded when an unidentified attacker shot him in the stomach and fled. In addition, a number of minor bombings were reported...