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...lest you think this is a story of radical baiting in Cambridge, circa 1969--which is easy enough to do--it's not. Sayles has an astoundingly accurate ear for speech, in this case the speech of 20-year old Americans in 1969 trying to sound like Lenin in Zurich in 1917. Skillfully interwoven with the story of Hunter McNatt's search for his son are also the stories of people who run across one or the other along the way, and their speech is wonderfully correct. Vinny and Dom, his Boston cops, are a little too pat ("Pahk...
...wrong, however loose the criteria may be. In no one is Pinero's point better epitomized than in Juan (Jose Perez), a stocky Puerto Rican who stands alone as the only inmate to rise to Short Eye's defense before the other prisoners and to lend him an ear, if admittedly not the most sympathetic one. The fact that Juan and the other prisoners strongly react to Short Eyes dramatizes Pinero's theme, even if the prisoners take diametrically opposed views of him. Where sheer indifference may have been expected, naked emotion flows...
...Morgoth whispered in the ear of Fëanor, to trouble him further. Together they came to Valinor and Morgoth pierced the two sacred trees with his spear and Ungoliant drank their light's blood from out of them and the two creatures escaped and a twilight settled upon the world. And the Valar called Fëanor to them and asked him to give up his Silmarils so that there might be light. But Fëanor would not. At that moment Morgoth attacked Fëanor's distant castle and took the jewels...
...Night of the Tribades is a play that stretches the mind, bares the nerves, challenges the ear, braces the imagination. Is that too good for Broadway? Possibly. Possibly not. - T.E. Kalem
...give all the credit to the girls," concluded Hunt. "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear...