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...Marcel Marceau, making his first Manhattan appearance since 1975, does not speak. He is Everyman, and his stage is Everywhere. He mimes timeless little stories, occasionally tinged with rueful reflections of contemporary life. He calls a dating service in search of a companion, and is sent a dozen of them, so diversely demanding that he flees his home...
CONTINUING THE fine tradition of Ntozake Shange and Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor is a Black woman writing about Black women's collective and unique experiences, mutual understandings, hostilities and rapport. But as in those authors' works, a metaphor for the world of Everyman lies within and between the lines...
...tapestry. The owner stays the blow of an impatient courtier, allows the stableboy an additional moment of art appreciation and then adds, "When you've done, go out quietly." That, implies the author, is the history of the commoner before his betters. But in Elian's retelling, everyman proves uncommon, and a mockingbird sits on his shoulder. When these Millses leave, they go noisily, and the echo they leave behind is the rocking sound of the last laugh. - By R.Z. Sheppard
...bitter and brutal keep gusting up out of nowhere and knocking them down. Out of this basic and by no means original insight, Irving crafted a bestseller and something more. His hero, T.S. Garp, that wise and foolish, gentle and fierce writer-wrestler has become a sort of postmodernist Everyman, and his often deadly adventures on the bleak bat lefields of the contemporary war between the sexes have given the book an almost mythic coloration for many readers...
...Boston Marathoners who are not world class, for whom Boston has always represented a sort of everyman's World Series, will it be the same? Rodgers says it will. He thinks professionalism and commercialism merely "ensure that world-class competitors will be present," and should have no effect on the dreamers. This was put to a dreamer, Washington Post Columnist Colman McCarthy, who writes better than he runs, but has finished three Boston Marathons. He mulled it over for a long moment before answering: "So many great amateurs have triumphed at Boston-Johnny Keliey, Clarence H. DeMar, Tarzan Brown...