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...characterizations, resulting in a fairly good script and stage presentation. Complex centers around Cap'm, Andy Birsh, who is also the play's director. Birsh is a lunatic with an endless supply of cash, using apartment D-21 as the setting for his heroic delusions. Like Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim, Birsh imagines himself as constantly in peril; his rantings range from being a beseiged military commander to a revolutionary writer captured by a dictator...
...nobody's brought off the Eastern novel recently, my view. Greene managed it, if you can take Greene, which I can't - too much popery. Malraux, if you like philosophy, which I don't. Maugham you can have, and before that it's back to Conrad...
...presidency (as a Democrat in the 1972 primaries); and Arthur Hard wick Jr., 61, an architectural designer and onetime politician who served with Chisholm in the New York State assembly in 1964-66. Last February the Congresswoman divorced her husband, social service investigator Conrad Chisholm, after 28 years of marriage, citing "irreconcilable differences...
Depression and Dynamite. The basic situation of The Wages of Fear is retained. The setting is still an imaginary Latin American dictatorship, more corrupt and depressed than even Conrad might have dreamed up. Once again there has been a blowout in a remote oil well, for which the only remedy is a lot of dynamite. Friedkin carefully-too carefully-sets all this up. He explains just why the well is not reachable by air and why the only available dynamite has aged into a highly volatile condition. Finally, as before, four desperate characters, men with nothing to lose, are recruited...
Both translated by ANDRÉE CONRAD...