Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everything after this is an anti-climax, either. Barnes' touch remains reliably strong throughout the whole play, which runs for three long and rewarding hours, mixing burlesque, absurdist tradition, and blank verse of an elevation hardly to be found since Eliot: "Twill make a desert of this world/Whilst ther's still one man left t' give commands/And another who'll obey them," Carlos says bitterly of all authority. Barnes--if not quite up to the level of his originals--is adept at suggesting Shakespeare, Wilde and the Marx brothers, and is best at bringing them all together to make something...
...Responsibility. To date, nobody has been able to build public housing for less than $1,200 per unit -more than most developing nations can afford. As Fathy has proved by rebuilding the village of Gourna in Upper Egypt and the town of Paris in the nation's western desert, he can bring the cost down to $500 per unit, including a kitchen and a latrine. He designs housing so that peasants can build it much as their fathers did in the past. No structural steel, concrete or wood is needed, just mud bricks and the native technique that Fathy...
...overweening care, allows herself to be kidnapped by her sexy new "nurse" and a smooth-talking preacher-turned-burglar, named, respectively, Sweetie and Popsy. The three set out in quest of "real life" and a good time, taking up residence near a British imperial outpost in some unidentified desert land. The Patient's mother eventually catches up with them but fails to recognize her daughter now disguised as a native servant girl and glowing with health...
FRANZ TROTTA thinks of eastern Austria as a wilderness where bears and uncivilized peasants run untamed. But the peasant who serves as his son's body-servant can still desert and go back home. If the army catches him it will hang him, but the rest of his village won't given him away, and no bombardier will reduce them both to dust without ever seeing either. "In those days before the Great War when the events narrated in this book took place, it had not yet become a matter of indifference whether a man lived or died," Roth begins...
Similarly, the attempt to make Paul's western apocalypse seem beautiful fails; it is as dull as the desert sand. Yet Winner depends exclusively on glib celluloid statements to establish points. The Kerseys are in love--because a golden sundown silhouettes them when they embrace...