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...Rain of Terror proves the power of simple storytelling. Its two characters never move from their ratty old sofa; one hardly speaks. The tale they relate has already reached its resolution, and its outcome is revealed almost immediately. Yet the description of the calculated murder of an escaped convict by a greedy old woman (Kathy Bates) and her submissive husband (Andy Backer) is spellbinding. Credit belongs in equal measure to Playwright Frank Manley and to the brilliant Bates, who reveals a deadly malevolence with matter-of-fact simplicity...
...Event might have come from a pocket in Gogol's Overcoat. In a provincial village of czarist Russia, a portrait painter and his unfaithful wife fearfully await an ex-convict who once threatened them with violence. Again an ambiguous reality intrudes: a character remembers being told, "I and my brother were played by one and the same actor, only in the part of my brother he was good, and in mine he was bad." In a central scene the principals remain themselves, but some of the supporting cast become painted representations...
...case a "judicial lynching." Says Joseph Kelner: "Mr. Morgenthau has been highly pressured by politicians who see gain in this for themselves. If he has a new witness, you have to wonder why they pop up now." Arguing that there is a tacit conspiracy among officials to convict his client in the court of public opinion, Kelner cites the decision this month to release a brooding confession Goetz made when he surrendered at a Concord, N.H., police station nine days after the shootings. "He's being turned from a crime victim into a criminal," says Kelner. Goetz...
...matter; when the jokes splat on the page like strained spinach flung by somebody's centrifugal suburban baby, they are true to life. Bombeck's mail shows that. Women, mostly, write to her about husbands who haven't blinked since the football season started or convict sons or babies put out for adoption. Usually they try to make jokes; Bombeck has taught them...
...CONVICTED. Samuel Brown, 43, ex-convict; of murder and robbery in the 1981 Brink's armored-truck holdup at a Nanuet, N.Y., mall in which a guard and two police officers were killed; in White Plains, N.Y. Brown was the last of the nine Brink's suspects in custody to be prosecuted...