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August, the Williams persona (Craig Smith), lives in a shack on the dunes, writing his first major play and trying to entangle Kip, a dancer and Nijinsky look-alike (Elton Cormier), in his grimy bedsheets. But both Kip and Clare (Dominique Cieri), who acts as his protector, are doomed, he by a brain tumor, she by diabetes. The entire work is shadowed by death, which is approaching as quickly as the fall. Both characters seem so tentative, however, that it is even hard to imagine that the end, when it occurs, will matter much to them or anyone else...
There are sparks from the Williams fire here and there; even when he is not in best form, Williams is never uninteresting. "How long are you going to go on working?" Clare asks August-Tennessee. "Until I die of exhaustion," he answers. Williams, 70, may be somewhat tired, but like Sophocles, who wrote his last play when he was nearly 90, he continues, on and on.- By Gerald Clarke
Though the author generally writes more feelingly about horses than about women, in Reflex he snaps off a sophisticated lady who is both believable and likable. In Clare, a 22-year-old book editor, Nore finds "a feeling of continuity, of belonging." In addition, Clare helps him realize that he has a way with a shutter that is more distinctive by far than his hand with a whip. Lens sana in corpore sano. This is Francis' most complex novel to date. It proves that writers, unlike jockeys, can get better each time around. -By Michael Demarest
...came this week with the announcement that three women and a Black had been hired to fill assistant professorships. The appointments will substantially increase the number of minorities and women on the Law Faculty, which currently includes one Black and two women. The four incoming assistant professors--Clare Dalton, Christopher F. Edley Jr., Susan Estrich, and Martha Minow--will probably be eligible for tenure in three years under a policy in which the school usually offers tenure after three years. Cheryl D. Hoffmann, president of the Women's Law Association, this week called the appointments "absolutely terrific." But Stephen...
...evening of literary vampirism on an up-beat note. Albee faithfully recreates Nabokov's part-farcical, part-horrifying murder scene: as the last act of his love-obsession, Humbert tracks down and decides to kill the man who had eventually helped Lolita escape him--the effeminate playwright Clare Quilty, played by William Mooney (standing in for Clive Revill in the performance I saw). Mooney enters from the top of a long, garishly majestic stairway leading down into a scene of post-party streamers, ashtrays and drinks. Sutherland announces his death sentence to him in the form of a ponderous poem...