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Extremities by William Mastrosimone. This is an explosive melodrama about a would-be rape and the woman's stark revenge. Alone in a New Jersey farmhouse, Marjorie (Ellen Barber) is accosted by an intruder, Raul (Danton Stone). At first, the jaunty stranger claims to be looking for a man who owes him money. But after some verbal sparring, he wrenches her to the floor by her hair and clamps a pillow to her face. Using the threat of suffocation, Raul systematically degrades Marjorie: "Touch my hair. My mouth. My neck . . . Now touch me down there and say you wanna...
When Marjorie's roommates (Kathy Bates and Peggity Price) arrive, other surprises ensue, some of them contrived and short on logic. What Mastrosimone has achieved is a precarious balance between the man's physical pain and the woman's mental anguish. Ellen Barber's Marjorie moves from inner hurt to towering fury, like an immutable law of gravity...
...NOTEBOOK: Yardling Courtney Roberts joined Meier and Coglin in opening up a makesshift barber shop at the Hanover Inn on Wednesday night...
There comes a time in the business of playing poker and being President when you have to push in your whole stack, as L.B.J. used to say. Reagan has. Now the only way he is going to succeed is with success itself. Barber Conable of New York, the ranking Republican of Ways and Means, observes that soon there must be a perception of progress, of change no matter how small, if the "new beginning" is going to take root and grow. That feeling can come a hundred ways-from action on the Hill, from Reagan's speeches, from lucky...
...British embassy in Washington (A Capitol Offense). He had also known and much liked Fletcher's wacky, lovely wife Gloria, who died driving her Jag too fast. In fairly short order, given his necessity to invoke Goethe, Swinburne, Auden, the Old Testament, Shakespeare, Conrad, Dostoyevsky, The Barber of Seville, Beethoven, Berenson, Vasari and other fonts of circumstantial wisdom, Usher stumbles into a morass of rot in Mass. As friends keep telling him, "Things don't happen to you: you happen to things...