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...kind of person who feels she needs to live her stories," says someone who was close to McKinny." She just would tape-record everything. She tape-recorded me." As research for a project on homelessness, another acquaintance says, McKinny once spent a month living out of cardboard boxes on the streets of Santa Monica, California...
...Coraghessan Boyle is an overpraised novelist with an unpleasant habit of sneering at his own cardboard characters," writes criticJohn Skow. Some writers can carry this off; Boyle definitely can't. His new novel (Viking; 355 pages; $23.95) has possibilities in its discussion of the shuddering distaste of California's Anglos for the Mexican illegals who perform the state's stoop labor. But the author mistrusts his skill and the reader's acuteness. "This is weak, obvious stuff," says Skow, "worth a raised eyebrow and a shrug...
...success of Mum and Shah is the production's surprising cohesiveness, a credit to Devitt. The play draws together monkeys, a cardboard couple and a seductress with electric whips (among other characters) based on poems from the book Catch! by Mark Zegans, a doctoral candidate at the Kennedy school of Government...
...takes some time for Cardboard Woman and Cardboard Man (played by Master Bow Sim Mark and Michael J. Nuell, respectively) to become more interesting than their two-dimensional names would suggest. However, in their reconciliation scene, the two burst out of their flatness...
Suddenly, the two have a tangible relationship, and Cardboard Man becomes endearing as he sings to his wife and wins her back. Mark succeeds in conveying her own emotions without dialogue: her movements are as expressive as they are fluid...