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Until now, John Updike's speculation was strictly fictive. No one knew what Stevens' private mind was like. All that could be concluded was that one of America's major poets showed the world a most prosaic exterior. Was the insurance man a mask? Was the poet a soul so sensitive it could only exist protected by money-that stuff which Stevens once called "a kind of poetry...
...Magnum Force. Now, in The Enforcer, with his reputation safe, he lets you see a little more of him. Nothing that probably wasn't there all along, nothing that is even a little hard to believe. You always knew he had a soft streak under that hard-as-nails exterior. It's just that you never really expected him to let anyone know. He is still tough, although a little more believable...
...desks, that mirrors suddenly break for no reason at all, that windows have a way of slamming shut without anyone's touching them. For Carrie possesses the power of telekinesis, the ability to animate objects and make them obey her will. In short, beneath that mousey exterior, that shy desire simply to be accepted, a terrible power lurks, waiting to be called forth...
...Plunkett. The quiet, country-bred young man from Ottawa, Kansas (pop. 11,000), resembles none of these demigods; yet he has already begun to exert his own spell on the Hub, its congeries of suburbs and that state of mind known as New England. For beneath his placid exterior, a competitive fire burns. Says Patriot Coach Chuck Fairbanks, who saw it early: "His eyes light up when it's time to play...
...would be expected, underneath the icy exterior Mr. Day is all honeyed sentimentality. His unsuccessful struggles to maintain appearances while wife and children expertly plot to get just what they want are the bases of humor here. There is no strong plot line; rather the play is a series of interlocking episodes that for the contemporary audience will bear a strong resemblance to situation comedies...