Word: huck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poet, remains in Czechoslovakia. Blacklisted into silence, he commits suicide. As a self-described "raconteur of cynical tales," Danny concludes that the only meaning to life is that there is no meaning. "History that repeats itself is a farce" becomes his fancy way of translating Huck Finn's cry from the heart: "I been there before...
Aglow with joy and vitality, grimacing and grinning like a pretty Huck Finn, the star leaps into the song-and-dance number that has been a theme song. She is stepping, she is prancing, she is getting her kicks. Her voice rides on the air, chanting a refrain, meant to be self-mocking, that her personality transforms into a cry of triumph. "Nobody," she sings, "no, nobody does it like me!" -By William A. Henry...
...Huck Finn and Holden Caulfield turned a perceptive innocence against a world that was out to steal their childhoods. But it has long been assumed that they used up the territories of the rural backwater and the prep school. Padgett Powell's twelve-year-old Simons Manigault is proof that they did not. He is in fact one of the most engaging fictional small fry ever to cry thief: sly, pungent, lyric, funny, and unlikely to be forgotten when literary-prize committees gather later in the year. Edisto (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 183 pages; $11.95) is an impressive first novel...
Robert Joy, while a fine actor, seems somewhat miscast as Huckleberry. He seems too uncomfortably Eastern to make a convincing Mississippi urchin Big River's Huck lacks the lazy, shrewd kind of cool that made I wam's hero so memorable...
...character is the only one that is developed beyond the two-dimensionality of the others. Resisting the temptation to condescend to his role or to the audience, Halley portrays a multi-faceted, complex character who is childlike and wise at once, evoking pathos without fishing for it. Were Huck as carefully developed and convincingly acted as Jim, the different episodes of the play would assume the coherence and interest that the production occasionally lacks...