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Israel Horovitz' latest, Park Your Car in Harvard Yard, is a remarkably quiet play. It's about a man who went to Harvard and went back to his hometown on the Cape to reconcile himself to teaching high school. And it's about the woman who comes to live with him as his housekeeper who still holds a grudge against him for flunking her--along with her mother, brother, and husband--in music appreciation. Music and hearing are important themes in the play--in fact, there is little else overtly discussed during the entire first act. But the two characters...
Sucking the blood of all who cross him, Dr. Petiot changes his costume to meet the demands of the time. Whether Dr. Petiot or disguised as some other man by day, he is always a villain by night. The black cape, dark circles under the eyes, and devilish eyebrows render the doctor not so different from the vampire of the film's early moments. Scorning sleep, Dr. Petiot declares his preference for night and chaos, "What I like about this war...you're plunged into real darkness...
...loud, bustling and blighted with that bane of modern life: relevance. Its articles are closely linked to current events, with the occasional bit of controversy thrown in for good measure. Its bright, wearyingly busy covers are increasingly and (for this writer, who misses the sedate Cape Cod cottage exteriors) inexplicably monopolized by Art Spiegelman's relentlessly contemporary artwork. The screaming covers are a tacit capitulation to the dictates of commerce, increasingly reflective of the need to compete in that bustling souk known as Out Of Town News...
...used to love Super Grover. I had a Super Grover Cape and would wear it around the house," said Laura J. Letterer...
...from the world community will finally come to an end. Anticipating that moment, A.N.C. president Nelson Mandela last week made an urgent plea for foreign firms to help repair the wreckage of the long antiapartheid struggle. "We need massive investment," he told a group of South African businessmen in Cape Town. Lifting sanctions, Mandela said, would be "an important psychological step" toward renewal...