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 \u003Cbr>American Cultural History was waiting.  \u003Cbr>Not for some more newsfilm,or a token  \u003Cbr>allusion in some flabby movie,but for the real  \u003Cbr>metaphorical thing:a drama.  \u003Cbr>At the stroke of nine,Horrors and Death  \u003Cbr>were to walk in on the teeming,lap-dog  \u003Cbr>millions.One guessed there were millions,  \u003Cbr>even though Variety reported that 94  \u003Cbr>television stations-\"half the CBS lineup\"一  \u003Cbr>refused to televise the show.And of those  \u003Cbr>millions,many were probably just curious to  \u003Cbr>know what CBS had denied them five months  \u003Cbr>earlier when it sat,fat and all-powerful,on the  \u003Cbr>show and said Cultural History could wait:  \u003Cbr>the POWs were coming back!  \u003Cbr>And when the Event of August 17 came  \u003Cbr>and passed,and when one could imagine the  \u003Cbr>jerky masses tying up telephones all over the  \u003Cbr>country-hopping mad at CBS-who could  \u003Cbr>not partake of anger,or dismay,as well?Not  \u003Cbr>for the witless notion of having been  \u003Cbr>affronted by this TV debut,but for the  \u003Cbr>feeling of having somehow been cheated by it.   | I remembered a theatre production of Sticks  \u003Cbr>and Bones in which the horror stories told by  \u003Cbr>the GI were more horrible,one in which the  \u003Cbr>tragi-farce style ran deeper.  \u003Cbr>Sticks and Bones is a mixture of tones and  \u003Cbr>devices:realism and expressionism,symbolism  \u003Cbr>and satire,rhetorical and realistic language.  \u003Cbr>Overall it has a crazy-quilt pattern.  \u003Cbr>Social inanities suddenly are counter-  \u003Cbr>pointed with soloing disquisitions that stop  \u003Cbr>the play cold,and that have as their subject  \u003Cbr>that old national bugaboo:the atrocities we  \u003Cbr>commit on others.  \u003Cbr>Maybe the play was never altogether  \u003Cbr>successful in any production,but in Joseph  \u003Cbr>Papp's TV version it looked weakened.As a  \u003Cbr>result,it could actually fall,in this form,into  \u003Cbr>the repertoire of summer playhouses al over  \u003Cbr>the country in a season or two,when we may  \u003Cbr>be at last willing to formalize our guilt into  \u003Cbr>socially acceptable patterns.  \u003Cbr>It might find a place where that horrible  \u003Cbr>man Arthur Kopit just wouldn't fit,with his  \u003Cbr>vulgar,profane,butchering Buffalo Bil in  \u003Cbr>Indians.But this play might work.….yes,and  \u003Cbr>afterwards Lobster Claws 'N Tail for Two at  \u003Cbr>Town&Country,$19.95.  \u003Cbr>In all of those respectable playhouses  \u003Cbr>where The Bad Seed and Come Back Little  \u003Cbr>Sheba have long done sturdy duty as the  \u003Cbr>heavy pieces between the Bye Bye Birdies and  \u003Cbr>the Mames,this might be new blood;and its  \u003Cbr>only offensive risks,quickly minimized,  \u003Cbr>would be for rich Catholics-the family types   | in the TV adaptation.But real rich Catholics  \u003Cbr>could be presumed liberal and more tolerant  \u003Cbr>than this deplorable family...more used to  \u003Cbr>guilt.And the nasty words could be fixed up  \u003Cbr>some more.  \u003Cbr>Some problems of staging might remain.  \u003Cbr>Direction of the TV version looked totally  \u003Cbr>absent at times.  \u003Cbr>Anne Jackson pressed her hand against her  \u003Cbr>GI son's mouth to silence one of his outbursts  \u003Cbr>and then withdrew it to stare at it as though  \u003Cbr>she had just touched poo-poo.Then the  \u003Cbr>younger son said hello Dad,and Dad said  \u003Cbr>hello:a recurrent sing-song exchange  \u003Cbr>parodying family communication.But it all  \u003Cbr>had the effect of a walk-through \"for places\"  \u003Cbr>-and there were no places really.In one  \u003Cbr>sudden disjunctive move that the play wright  \u003Cbr>himself probably never conceived,characters  \u003Cbr>were replaced by emblematic cutouts.  \u003Cbr>Perhaps the director,Robert Downey","cbCairxICOYac08n","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairxICOYac08n","pdf",4303542,"English","# SAVED FROM OURSELVES\n## Channel 8 and “Sticks and Bones” (1973)\n## Tone, themes, and the play’s devices\n## Critique of the TV adaptation and staging","[{\"question\":\"What story does “Sticks and Bones” focus on?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on a blind American veteran of Vietnam who is rejected by his family.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the review describe the play’s artistic approach?\",\"answer\":\"It describes the work as a mixture of realism and expressionism, using symbolism and satire alongside rhetorical and realistic language.\"},{\"question\":\"What criticism does the review make of the TV adaptation?\",\"answer\":\"It argues the television version weakened the production through direction and staging issues, including how the camera excludes desired action and settles into frustrating closeups.\"}]","SAVED FROM OURSELVES - Channel 8. 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