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...greatest disappointments of the book, Mellow manages to reveal little about the curious friendship between Hawthorne and Herman Melville. He discusses Melville's fondness for Hawthorne at some length, and provides a useful glimpse of Melville's slightly odd attachment to the older writer; but Hawthorne's feelings about Melville remain a mystery...
...Culture? When I hear the word culture I reach for my pistol." --Herman Goering...
...Ellen Herman, a spokesman for WAVAW, said last night she is angry that millions of dollars were spent on "anti-lesbian propaganda" like "Windows," and $800,000 could not be found to finance "Rubyfruit Jungle," a positive story about a lesbian written by a lesbian...
...subtle expressiveness of her Chaplinesque face and the easy grace of her gestures and movements lend her performance a naturalness that never fades though she remains on stage nearly every minute of the play. In Krieger and Thurston's most clumsily staged scene--a confrontation between Julia and Herman's mother that climaxes in a screaming match of racial slurs--Gonsalves delivers some of her most powerful lines upstage, her back to the audience; still she commands the scene. After her fight with Herman's mother, Gonsalves' face explodes in a mask of tearless rage that emphasizes the disgust...
While Gonsalves' forceful voice projects frustration and helplessness, her tone rarely changes, considerably weakening her scenes with Tom Saunders' Herman. Gonsalves' urgency, juxtaposed with Saunders' wooden-soldier gestures and flat line delivery, makes them appear more like uncomfortable acquaintances than intimate lovers...