Word: gropingly
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Miles and Reynolds grope toward each other like clumsy puppets, unable to communicate on the same level. "Why do people fall in love?" Miles asks. "It's like two drops of rain, that fall together," replies Reynolds, who seems understandably bothered as the words leave his mouth. When the two lovers set up house in an abandoned shack, Miles beats a retreat to the suburban TV housewife stereotype. Reynolds only nibbles at dinner, and she runs from the dining room in tears. "I thought I put too much salt in the stew," she explains, the words muffled in the embrace...
...with wit, coherent political philosophy and some insight into the great worlds of London or Washington in which they moved. In the century since, the novel of politics has come a long way-straight down. But the reader's fascination with power continues, and those Washington journalists who grope into fiction are as prolific...
...handle without hitting a rock. A tin can will grow here...The narrator's muffled but desperately articulate voice speaks as if from a dungeon of alienation: the voice pleads with the reader for understanding, and as the speaker surfaces out of the narrative sporadically to grope at us, the torture of writing such a chronicle becomes a major theme. With a style like that of a mole burrowing furiously inches below the soil, sending up a series of tiny explosions of dirt, Rhodes has created a narrator that is some kind of seventies' Underground...
...rhythm of his Cole Porter 78's. But after even slight reversals in the plot, his face turns slightly sour; give him greater trouble and he'll pout; and if you beat him, why then he's momentarily lost, his virility sapped, though his rolling tongue will still grope for words with which to snatch victory...
...What Caravan has done can't harm a play that is broad and strong enough to make sexuality seem merely incidental. The graft doesn't take; the plant is healthier than ever. Jarring additions, such as Didi's case of the clap, or the segment where Pozzo and Lucky grope vainly boringly, Hairiedly for each other on the floor of the stage, are absorbed in the larger effort to deal with "the way it is on this bitch of as earth...