Word: gaslit
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These omissions are not careless. King is a storyteller who boldly uses the most primitive and melodramatic forms to explore very basic emotional issues, and this is his fantasia on feminist themes. Dolores (Kathy Bates) in some ways resembles the heroine of a gaslit theatrical enterprise of the 19th century. She is haunted by an ancient crime, stands falsely accused of a new one and is bedeviled by a policeman (Christopher Plummer) who could give Les Miserables' Inspector Javert lessons in sneering implacability...
...kinder, gentler Sweeney was unimaginable until Susan H. Schulman's intimate reconsideration arrived on Broadway last week. This time the tale comes by way of Dickens. London's gaslit windows ring the circular seating. Tattered gray laundry sags from clotheslines all around. Turbulent street life spills into the aisles. Gloomy, angry and unjust Sweeney's world remains, but human connections now matter...
...apocalyptic day of reckoning. One of Waiting's most unsettling achievements is its revelation of how distorted forms of religion become essential to a community that takes itself to be God's elect. In the book's most chilling scene, 40 middle-class citizens quietly file into a gaslit packing shed to hear a tirade against the agents of the Antichrist. First they hear a harangue, then on cassette the voice of an American who claims to have defected from the forces of darkness. The agents of Satan, he rants, include the Kennedys, Sears, Roebuck, the Rothschilds and the Council...
...children (Yankton Hatten and Gennie James), by a shrewd, gentle, black man (Danny Glover) whom she redeems from rootlessness and petty crime, and by a blind man (John Malkovich) whom she redeems from bitterness. As these archetypes of disenfranchisement assemble in her kitchen, a bonding of proletarian fiction and gaslit theater takes place. And a wary customer may be forgiven for wondering if the shades of D.W. Griffith and John Steinbeck are warring for possession of Writer-Director Robert Benton's soul...
...approaches, a young bride with long, luxuriant hair sells her locks to buy a watch fob for her husband. He, meanwhile, has pawned his timepiece to purchase a set of combs. Lisbeth Zwerger's biting line and soft, evocative palette illuminate the characters with an aura of a gaslit nobility, and burnish an antique until it shines. With two previous books, The Garden of Abdul Gasazi and last year's Jumanji, Chris Van Allsburg has become the reigning master of black-and-white illustration. In his third work, Ben's Dream (Houghton Mifflin; $8.95), the pictorial style...