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...after the arduous trek to Aqaba and its swift conquest, the film's Lawrence loses heart in the desert campaign. He sees himself as unfit for military command-not out of military considerations, but because of his failure to live up to his own personal vision. He is part Arab and part English, and only a superman would be able to bridge that cultural gap. Lawrence, with a fear of bloodshed which does not control his erratic sadism, and a masochism which is brought to the surface when he is tortured at the hands of a homosexual Turkish...
...dialogue because they made "no difference in the art'stic meaning of the film." Then the league released a letter from Ford Motor Co. President Lee lacocca promising that the television series The FBI, which Ford sponsors, would avoid those terms in next season's episodes. Swift & Co. also agreed to change a TV advertisement that featured an Italian delicatessen owner, and Alka-Seltzer promised to discontinue its prizewinning commercial "Spicy Meatballs...
Arthur Lasky has captured the essence of Rhinoceros and added some brilliant touches of his own to a play which abounds in them. His production is witty and is distinguished by a mastery of the play's swift pace and orchestrated style, and particularly by its generous supply of ingenious business and subtle exploitation of the bare setting. Berenger's increasing isolation, for instance, is cleverly accented by having the rhinos take apart the stage piece by piece until the hero is left on a small island. His use of visual puns and slapstick is very effective. The director does...
...Lawrence, Henry Miller, and Jean Genet all fall under her carving knife. (So does Mailer, for that matter, but in the Harper's essay, he seems to be too, er, modest to reflect on Millett's criticism of his own work, except in passing.) He is, however, swift to show us how and where the good woman wrecks havoc...
Director John Greenwood would have done well to edit the last portions of the play; he at least provided a swift pacing of the action, so the repetitive motifs in the play did not become too wearisome...