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...decade dissolved into a blur of smoke-filled soirees in overheated rooms, everpresent drinks and effervescent Follies girls, Wilson awoke one morning in 1929 to damn New York's literary life as "a babel of tongues, a round of disorderly parties, an exchange of malicious gossip and a blather of half-baked aspirations...
...plot dawdles, Rhinehart's language and humor exert their wiles. Though he leans more to wisecrack than to wit, he gets off fine mimicrys of TV talk shows, journalistic deepthink and professorial psychoanalytic jargon. Between sheets (the book is copiously copulative), Rhinehart works up a positively Joycean lather-blather...
...because the subject always remains aloof on grounds that she is preparing her own autobiography. Accordingly, the author sometimes has had to fall back on familiar anecdotes and cinematic clichés like "amazing," and "extraordinary." Still, she offers much previously unpublished material, and the book exposes as adulative blather most previous exploitations of the Kennedy women. The absorbing personage presented comes on as half pluperfect politician, half solitary saint...
...enough. A prose-poem called The Parliament of Clan Thomas (circa 1650) derides the peasantry for selling out to Oliver Cromwell and becoming, coincidentally, Uncle Toms. And after the Rising of 1916, the rebels were actually jeered by their fellow citizens. A few of the noncombatants later came to blather a good fight, but far more of them lapsed into political indifference and deeper cynicism, which is why, for some years after independence, this colorful country produced the world's drabbest politics...
...MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN, one of Eugene O'Neill's last plays, laments a loveless trio. W. B. Brydon, Salome Jens and Mitchell Ryan give poignant portrayals of three emotional cripples hiding their numerous afflictions beneath much blather and rant. Theodore Mann directs a neatly tuned production at the Circle in the Square...