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...they cleared out the floor of the Public Hall--witness to flower shows, circuses, and an out-of-control Beatles concert in 1964--and brought in the press...
...Performances begin to fray at the edges of the company: Lloyd Morris portrays a terribly sappy Malcolm, and Henry Woronicz as Banquo has too much of that Ewell Gibbons pleasantness to be credible in this nuthouse. The weird sisters, too, seem strangely mundane, more like a couple of Cockney flower girls who got lost on the heath than witches...
...William Faulkner. Somehow, that subject takes an uncanny turn toward Forbert soliloquizing about how people need direction and motivation, how--if they haven't found it yet--they should continue to search. For the first time, eloquence of a sort enters the room. Out of the mud, the lotus flower blooms. I extend a handshake, happy to have what few notes I have, catch an L.A.-bound plane and spend the next three days and nights pondering how to frame this gaunt communication into a story...
...Finally, nobody ever really wants a scandal cleared up. Uncleared-up, a scandal is like radio: it allows the imagination to rove like a child in a flower field, especially when an office romance is involved, and the imagination may cavort among infinite possibilities of after-hour adventures behind the desk-legs sprawled wildly among the Eberhard Fabers; Muzak stuck on Boléro. When the candid spoilsport steps forward to tell it like it actually was, the imagination's freedom is curtailed. The audience grows vengeful. Carnage ensues...
...tourists did not return. The company also attempted a merger with Lux-air, Luxembourg's airline. That also failed to take off. Now Icelandair is negotiating to sell its elderly Boeing 727s to Yugoslavia, and it has leased its DC-10 to Air Florida. Like the flower children it once served, Icelandair is left mostly with memories...