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...spindled and mutilated that the mind's computer tends to reject them as not altogether human. Yet they have a way of engaging the reader with their perverse antics and comic, but horrific, deeds. Stewart's first novel, Orpheus on Top, marked him as a humorist of darkest hue. In this, his second, he has created an "entertainment" worthy of France's Grand Guignol theater...
...pastoral quiet of Lynnfield, Mass., was shattered one night last summer by the nerve-jangling throb of a pile driver. The residents' darkest suspicions were soon confirmed. The Boston suburb was to be the first of 15 localities where the Government plans to build anti-ballistic-missile (ABM) sites. Now, like other communities across the country, Lynnfield is fighting the nuclear intrusion with all its limited means...
...Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis led this country courageously through some of history's darkest moments - and we can't even manage to return simple wishes of peace and happiness to her now. Rather depressing, isn't it? NANCY WARD Whitewater...
...protests were laced with a deep sense of disappointment that the Soviets had regressed to their bad old ways. "It turns the clock back to the darkest days of the cold war," said New Zealand's Prime Minister Keith...
...unhappy second category Paul Schmidt's production screws around a lot, and most of it is pretty second-rate. Shakespeare's vicious savage, often Websterian tragedy is, for God's sake, not the lightweight collection of ideas on this stage, and when the play does assume characteristics of the darkest and most destructive comedy (as the program notes fashionably term the entire play) in the last few scenes, Schmidt reverses the entire style of his own production to heavy and symbolic drama, groping I presume for an ending via sudden spurts of electronic music and taped dialogue replays. Hector...