Word: fortresses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...engines, so the agents fired shots across the vessel's bow and boarded it. Boucan frantically threw mysterious papers overboard and, while being taken back to port, slipped over the side. The next morning he was recaptured, exhausted, near the walls of Marseille's harbor fortress...
...mystery novels, his title - and his theme - was "Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?" The same skepticism might be directed toward a subspecies of the mystery genre known as the caper story, wherein a skilled handful of professionals try to steal a certain invaluable object from a certain impregnable fortress. The trouble with such yarns is that they tend to be about mechanics, not people. Unable to believe in the characters, who could care that the fuse won't light or the tumblers won't fall...
...mainstage Thursday night does for marriage what Kennedy did for Hoffa. The play is a drawing room misery in which a captain of the coast artillery and his wife Alice have by their profligate hostility doomed themselves to a life alone in the rooms of an island fortress off the coast of Sweden. They are a grim pair proceeding through their days with ritual bitterness; only the occasional Morse Code eruptions of the domestic telegraph set and the arrival of the Third Character divert the flow of venom from its daily course...
Nobody, not even the omnipresent George, seems to know what thoughts Flip may have that he does not write down. "He doesn't give much," says Herbert Baker, chief writer on the show. "There's a wall. Inside the wall is a moat. And then the fortress begins." Few members of his show's staff have ever seen the inside of his home, a two-bedroom colonial that he rents in the Hollywood Hills. His awards-which include two Emmys-are placed in front of his bed. facing a brass statue of a clown, a gift from...
...with which Hawkes handles his language, the presence of so many potentially heavy-handed symbols would be intolerable. If the tapestry metaphor provides a unifying principle, the images betray an artificial sense of indeterminacy: church icons, an eagle, the color orange, the children, a shepherdess and a shepherd, the fortress and the arbor, all these comprise a fabric of pretentious love and meaningless hatred. On a note of tragedy the tapestry grows sordid, but Cyril is so consistently enervated even the tragic sensation becomes a cheat...