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...focuses his fiercest and most striking images--images that draw power not so much from their unexpectedness as from the fear and loathing they convey. The LSD-scarred businessman in "Thirty Spot, Fifteen Back on Either Side" stands helpless in the authoritative presence of a "jade-green reporter like a blade of metal grass thrust upright between the harsh lines of the grip's shouting..a hornet prowling the air." As she enters she checks a mirror, "parting her lips roughly with two blood-colored fingernails and revealing her teeth...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Expository Fantasy | 12/5/1981 | See Source »

...believes they are worth producing, then he has no taste whatsoever and also deserves to fail. I find myself hoping this theatre will collapse on its impotent foundation. In the unlikely event it survives it will do more damage to theatre-going in the area than good: it will convey to young playwrights that the only way to get produced is to write thin, bittersweet, Lanford Wilson plays about little people: and to audiences that there is no more the theatre can make of the waste and injustice and dissociation of our time and our country than this disengaged...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Cowardly Trilogy | 12/2/1981 | See Source »

...skirts. These fastenings strike the author as powerful agents of emotional restraint. Punkers, on the other hand, leave zippers sagging, shirts unbuttoned and wear safety pins through their cheeks as though the flesh itself is literally exploding with rage. The styles may be disparate, Lurie concludes, but "both graphically convey the sense of a world, or a personality, in grave danger of coming apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Exposing Secrets of the Closet | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

...their destruction. But clearly that was not what Mr. Stockman meant, since the tax package-if it was a deception-was designed to destroy only some of the people, i.e., the poor. For the rich the gift would be genuine. If, by using Troy, Mr. Stockman wished to convey the idea that the Reagan bill was a pig in a poke, he was backing the wrong horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Horse in Sheep's Clothing | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...that constitute the flotsam and jetsam of Harvard theatre. There's much naivete in Hair, but there's a lot of creativity too. Papas & Co., including the staff of the Institute, have to be admired for making a start toward establishing a tradition of orginial shows that try to convey a real message. It's only too bad that they could not have brought us more than snippets of the original Hair...

Author: By John KENT Walker, | Title: Snippets of Hair | 11/19/1981 | See Source »

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