Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Long before she saw her first play, Marian Seldes knew she would become an actress. She knew as a six-year-old standing before a mirror in a nightgown that became "a costume in some dream," knew as a student standing before the ballet barre, "trying too hard to be a dancer," knew as a 16-year-old, standing before her parents and "auditioning" as Joan of Arc. So when she graduated from high school she turned down the college acceptances--among them, one from Radcliffe College--and took her first job in the theater (she ended up in Cambridge...
...each one is enveloped in a cocoon of lonliness, from the crazed general who spends his days shooting monkeys who make forays into his orchard to the old hermit having the life sucked out of him in a house infested with leeches. The characters trapped in the jungle village dream of escape from their solitude, but the city-dwellers are no better...
Some officials believe that wave-power machines could conceivably supply all of Britain's electricity needs. Says Alexander Eadie, Britain's Under Secretary for Energy: "Wave power is not just a boffin's pipe-dream. It is a credible proposition." The British government has doubled spending on wave-power research this year, to $5.5 million, and the Japanese have committed $5 million over the next two years. They are betting that these investments could pay off in decades ahead. Oil wells may dry up, but waves will never cease to roll...
...astonishing as inexplicable misery. Cheever has never tried more or less than to get this sense of mystery down. At the end of one story, he wonders how mere fiction could "hope to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream." As consistently as any of his contemporaries, Cheever has done just that...
...Blood. The play is ostensibly about a nasty case solved by Sherlock Holmes (Paxton Whitehead) with his customarily occult intelligence - a fancifully distorted version of Conan Doyle's The Sign of the Four. What Crucifer is actually about is Holmes' study, a bibliophile's opulent dream, though Holmes is so busy shooting up cocaine that it is questionable whether he could lift a book. It is also about an opium den so suggestive of for bidden and abandoned pleasures that it might serve as ad copy for Yves Saint Laurent's new perfume. One visual stunner...