Martin S. Levine
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The Sleeping Car Murder
It is night, Thrown together in a sleeping compartment on the 10:30 from Marseilles are a frustrated clerk obsessed with
A Man's A Man
The first course in a two-week Harvard Brechfest, A Man's a Man much resembles a glass of orange juice: acid,
Finian's Rainbow
The passage of time has faded Finian's Rainbow. Its fantasy minces, its humor stumbles, its message plods. Its plot--which genially
Thunderball
So many characters in Thunderball are knifed, shot, speared, strangled, gassed, drowned, fried, eaten, or blown to smithereens that one
Under Mills Wood
Though written for radio, Under Milk Wood surely deserves live public performance; yet, I would have thought it obvious that
Repulsion
Nightmares are frightening because they make the bizarre inescapably logical, and any work of art dealing in horror and suspense
The Married Woman
"Plotless," "pretentious," and "pointedly avant garde" are all perfectly accurate epithets for The Married Woman, and I only wish I
Throne of Blood
Though "based on" Macbeth, Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood retains only the psychology and basic plot. Gone is the poetry
Has Success Spoiled John LeCarre? Is the Big Question of Second Novel
The Looking Glass War is either a good book with serious flaws or a bad one with unusual virtues, and
State's High Court Approaches Ruling On Arboretum Suit
The lengthy, bitter, and complex Arnold Arboretum case entered its final phase yesterday as arguments were heard in the Commonwealth's