Word: belfast
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...native of Belfast, Brian Moore has a special talent for pungent portraiture of those Irish men and women who are, as James Joyce put it, "outcast from life's feast": desperate spinsters, failed priests, drunken poets-and expatriates, like Moore himself. But as the distance between Moore and his homeland widened, he produced, under the pseudonyms Michael Bryan and Bernard Marrow, some lamentable whodunits. By way of apology he once explained: "I tried to write as an American...
Moore, 62, is still trying to write as an American. Cold Heaven, his 13th novel, traverses a terrain of the spirit as far removed from Belfast as the beach house in Malibu, Calif., where he now resides. His main characters are a California couple vacationing on the French Riviera. After a boating accident, the husband, a self-centered young physician named Alex Davenport, is taken to a local hospital with head injuries; a team of French physicians pronounces him dead. His widow Marie suspects foul play. "Did they kill him . . . because of what I didn't do?" she muses...
...good news about Moore's novel is that it contains a splendid portrait of a priest, whose line of talk demonstrates that the author still has an infallible ear for the speech of the clerics who educated him back in Belfast. The good father in Cold Heaven serves to redeem Moore's cast of otherwise lackluster characters. His name is Monsignor Cassidy. Bless him, he is the only Irishman...
...precedented reason--lack of interference. In the last year or so the BSC has done a fair amount of experimenting with the different ways a director can mangle a script in the interests of originally; their director's Romeo and Juliet was set mysteriously and superfluously in modern-day Belfast, and Bill Coe's Memlet offered the truly creative line-reading "To be, or not?... To be!" But now the fever seems to have broken. Caesar, which will run repertory with Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, demonstrates the virtues of an almost lost art: the straight reading...
...rose to prominence during two tours as director of military intelligence (1948-50 and 1959-62) and then as Israel's first military governor of the occupied West Bank. Israelis know him best for the informed military commentaries he provided during the 1967 Six-Day War. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1918, he immigrated to Palestine in 1935 but returned to England to study at Cambridge. In 1939 he enlisted in the British army, and continued his military career in the Israeli armed forces after the birth of Israel in 1948. Herzog has close ties to both...