Word: darkest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to do with my summer. Before I knew it, it was March and my friends were saying to me incredulously, "What? You don't know what you're doing this summer? It's getting late..." I realized that most of them had been pondering this even in the darkest days of winter, with printers churning out cover letters when I was wondering if summer was even going to come...
...this may not sound like a light-hearted romp through Tinseltown, but Mamet's genius lies in rendering the darkest and most depressing conclusions hilariously entertaining. His dialogue is quick, realistic, lively and witty. The words of the actors take on a life of their own, piling cliche on cliche, spinning a web of rhetoric, mocking communication...
SEPT. 26: Yesterday was probably the coldest, darkest, saddest day of my life. I stood at attention as three American soldiers were rolled by in caskets draped with American flags. War is very sad and kills everyone in some way. I can't help but think what might happen if it had been me in one of those caskets...
...storyteller's ancient, changeless pattern develops, working as well in Denmark and Greenland as it did for Ross Macdonald in his Lew Archer novels of darkest California and for Martin Cruz Smith and the series that began with Gorky Park in Moscow. Smilla puts her nose in harm's way and gets it bloodied. Like Archer and like Smith's Russian cop Arkady Renko, she keeps on poking. She's in peril in a glossy casino near Copenhagen, on a powerful, mysteriously equipped icebreaker plowing north toward Greenland, on the floating metal atoll of a huge fueling dock, and finally...
...American playwright uses factual material more imaginatively than Lee Blessing, whether speculating about arms-control negotiations in the witty A Walk in the Woods or ruminating on how the national pastime embodies our darkest heritage in the antiheroic biography Cobb. He hits a new peak in TWO ROOMS, a depiction of a Beirut hostage and his grieving wife that merges harrowing narrative with elegantly poetic, and redemptive, visual and verbal imagery. A brilliant, too-brief off-Broadway staging by James Houghton, starring Jeffrey Hayenga and the unforgettable Laura Esterman, has just closed. The play deserves further productions around the country...