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...this year, either. When Rick Burleson singaled to score Butch Hobson in the 15th inning Sunday, Fenway's dismal affair with the 1976 ended. As the right field bleachers clock steadily ticked off the final minutes of the season, a sign hanging below it already proclaimed next spring's hopes: "WE'LL GET 'EM NEXT YEAR! SOX of '77 NO. 1." As Burleson singled, the clock solemnly proclaimed "6:09," then shut...
...does believe sinners can be redeemed by good works. For former Tory Minister John Profumo, the road to redemption led from Parliament to London's slums after his affair with Call Girl Christine Keeler in 1963. Last week Profumo, 60, was at Buckingham Palace with his wife, Valerie Hobson. The former Secretary of State for War had come to accept the Queen's thanks and investiture as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his work with ex-addicts, alcoholics and London's homeless...
...such anguish. The son of a middle-class family from the Midlands, he studied law at Oxford before chucking it to try directing. He became an actor "to find out what they did." His first role in an undergraduate production was Richard HI; his acting was described by Harold Hobson of the London Sunday Times as "a frightening, powerful performance...
...Laura Z. Hobson's new novel, Consenting Adult (Doubleday; $7.95), the mother of a gay teen-ager first sends him to a psychiatrist, who fails to "cure" him. After a cycle of deep shock, self-reproach, bitter arguments and forced reconciliations, she finally comes to accept her son's homosexuality and even sends him a congratulatory telegram when he comes...
Beckett's peculiar genius is to set up such Hobson's choices while squeezing them for all the farce they will yield. His is a Buster Keaton, deadpan humor that shrivels in the explaining. Mercier and Camier is as hilarious, in gasps, as anything he has written. The novel's coolly mannered prose disguises outrageous statements until the instant they land. There is also cruelty in Beckett's method (Mercier is comforted briefly by the sight of a dead and bleeding wom an) and surprising moments of compassion. When Mercier and Camier part, they lose...