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...book ever to scale the best-seller list. The volume owes its $50 price largely to its 277 pictures, many of them never before exhibited or published. Some have been reproduced with too little contrast, but the photographs throw as much light on Adams' genius as anything in the text. Looking back in an amiable mood, he has produced the kind of memoir given to noting that a 1944 New York City hotel room was "most agreeable" and that Walter Mondale could be "most cordial and patient" when sitting for Adams' camera...
...with Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography, to be issued next week by Pantheon (340 pages; $19.95). It is an admirable work, appreciative but not uncritical, enriched but not burdened by meticulous research. Though Niebuhr's ideas are skillfully woven into the story, Fox offers a life, not a theology text...
...vaulted over his contemporaries with this production. His performance ripens and changes night by night. It still seems unfinished in some scenes, too cautious in others, and is on the whole a bit quiet and constrained to energize a melodrama nearly four hours long. But he speaks the text with clarity and command, and he makes Hamlet believable as a whirlpool of contradictions: an inconstant avenger, a jealous yet indifferent lover, a humane moralist who kills innocents without remorse. Rather than impose a defining personality to achieve cohesion, Kline glories in the character's variety. Spontaneity and impulse...
Vienna, staged off-Broadway in a church, has a sporadic text by Historian Charles Mee Jr. but nothing like a narrative. Played behind a gauzy scrim, it juxtaposes lyrical nudity and erotic mania, chivalrous honor and military obsession. Some of the images may be dreams, recounted by Freudians in the city where he practiced. Some are chillingly literal and hint of worse horrors yet to come: one woman, speaking in German of a pleasure jaunt, appears to mention Dachau, where the Nazis built a concentration camp. Most striking, however, are the wordless tableaux: the supple blond man who, with boots...