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Apparently repentant at charging full price for a half-length evening, Cherson has tacked on after the performance one of Beckett's self-directed made-for-T.V. shorts, untitled Ghost Trio, it makes Krapp's Last Tape look like Oklahoma! by comparison. While hardcore absurdist buffs may find this collection of long, gray pauses and slow, expressionless voices interesting Ghost Trio acts primarily as a soporific and is assuredly not worth staying for. Better to walk out during the brief intermission between the shows, however gingerly, with the oppressive miasma of Krapp still fresh in your mind...
...keeping with the weekend's Halloween spirit, un old ghost that has haunted the men's soccer team in seasons past visited the 1982 squad in its match with Brown Saturday. It was the ghost of missing scoring chances, and it spooked the boaters into a 3-0 shutout at the hands of the Bruins...
...lack of ability on King's part, but moreso in his insecurity. He has been typed as a mass-market horror writer, and is experiencing the fatal pangs of self-doubt. King has been convinced that in order to establish himself as a serious writer, he must abandon his ghost stories. He does so, not realizing that horror is, in fact, the most effective vehicle for his creative sense...
What is patently established in Different Seasons is that Stepheo King is not effectively impassioned with Jailbreaks and Nazis. Nor is he overly inspired by Peter Straub--the author of Ghost Story--whose style King emulates in the fourth and final story. "A Winter's Tale: The Breathing Method...
...final bold stroke of midnight, December 31, 1899." "Although presented as a true chronicle the events tend towards the fantastic from the initial sequence in which Deride disappears in a black silk balloon. Yet such events are treated as commonplace (if confusing) as is sexual mutability. Neither ghost nor devil is long absent from the Zinn hearth...