Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ghost of T.A.D. Jones take permanent leave from my brain...
...Britain in October and will be published in the U.S. next month (Simon & Schuster; $16.95). Sometimes embarrassingly frank, other times disappointingly discreet, it is, from beginning to end, always Olivier. He turned down would-be collaborators, like the late Critic Kenneth Tynan, and began work with a ghost. But after talking into a tape recorder for 30 or 40 hours, he took charge, as he usually does, and wrote everything himself. Now, on this chilly fall day, he has come in from the country to talk about his life and what he calls "my damned book...
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...
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...