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Terry Won't Talk springs from the refusal of Terry Blade (Mark Linn-Baker) to communicate with his family; as sister Suzy (Marilyn Caskey) announces at the outset, "Momma! Terry won't talk!" Terry becomes a sort of walking Rorschach blot, upon whom each of the characters projects an explanation for his silence: his mother (Elizabeth Norment) thinks someone lied to him; his teacher (Nancy Mayans) thinks he's ill; the principal (John Bottoms) sees it as the silence of a poet; and Mrs. Blade's lover, Chester, who seems to be a regular reader of Existential Digest, ascribes...
Foremost, Terry Won't Talk embraces a thoroughgoing relativism, a denial of all values, an exposition of Wittgenstein's dictum (included in the program notes) that "all propositions are of equal value." As Mr. Blade tells Chester, "There's always an alternative," a meaningless choice between meaningless poles. People talk in paralleled non sequiturs...
...strength is in our length--we have a big crew, and our long strokes allow us to utilize our power," Spencer said yesterday, adding that "we have a tenacious catch." The "catch" refers to putting the blade of the oar into the water...
Thus, again and again, the landscape tables refer to something other than landscape. Knife in the Rock, 1970, for example, suggests the pointed blade of a Japanese tanto (short sword) impressed in the stone, as though the granite were wax. But, in general, landscape is the sole image, and its core is the stone itself, with its obdurate beauty, dark crystalline structure and archaic associations with ritual and shelter. As a result, a piece like Double Red Mountain, 1969, functions both as a highly stylized image of Zen landscape and as a more Western object, tinged with surrealist fantasy...
...Death's blade lie many a flower curled...