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Wallace Keith Joyner, nearly 24 but as callow as a bat boy, is the latest contribution from Brigham Young University to the world's sweatshops. Chicago Bears Quarterback Jim McMahon and Boston Celtics Guard Danny Ainge may be hard to think of as latter-day saints, but Joyner is easily pictured on the side of the Angels, a paragon on the order of Atlanta Outfielder Dale Murphy. The gray manager of the Angels, Gene Mauch, 60, says, "Joyner has a graceful way about him, at bat, on the field and in the clubhouse...
...worth remembering that as John F. Kennedy turned 40, he was still a somewhat callow politician being maneuvered by his domineering father. When Kennedy was elected President in 1960, he was 43, and his generation, the Baby Boomers' parents, was just coming to power...
Much of the acting is top notch as well. Andrew Watson as the might-have-been-British Consul demonstrates fine sense of control. Watson moves from aged recollector to callow youth with a startling ease. His control of voice and movement, save a few some minor quavers, is excellent. He carries the opening monologue with such success that the audience wonders if he could have carried off a one-man rendition of Travesties...
...20th century rumbles to an end, American designers' enduring fascination with Tomorrow has revived. But Tom Swift is dead. This time around, the fashionably conceived future involves a certain cultivated disillusion, a kind of callow, teasing Weimar dread. The thrill is gone...
...title is electronic static forced into symbolic service as some sort of universal death rattle. Throughout, technology is depicted as the ominous messenger of our common fate; even the price scanners in supermarkets are spooky. Discovering malevolence in things and systems rather than in people is a little callow, especially when DeLillo's solemn moralizing overruns his comedy. Perhaps that is why, after eight books, he still seems like a writer making a debut...