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Albee's lacerating play, about a failed academic and his vindictive wife who funnel their disappointment and anger into verbal barbs and hourly betrayals, shook Broadway by the neck when it opened in 1962. Though Mr. Hill seemed to have the less flashy role鈥攓uiet stealth bomber to Martha's rocket launcher鈥攎any considered his performance the equal of Hagen's. Robert Brustein called him "astonishingly good芒鈧y turns meek and malicious, driving toward the jugular with a fury born of despair."