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This weekend the Loeb Experimental Theater presents Hindy's Punkplay and Shepard's Icarus' Mother and Forensic and the Navigators on Friday and Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. and on Saturday...
...truth about the young man emerges slowly and is hefty with mythological implication. Joel was a gifted student pilot who, like Icarus, got too cocky. In the Dickey version, the cadet flies too close to a raging brush fire and loses control of his plane in the hot turbulence. A farmer pulls him from the wreckage, but while he goes to get help Joel disappears, leaving only his broken goggles and a piece of zipper torn from his boot...
...leads an honor guard at Arlington National Cemetery. All show, no go. But in Private First Class Jackie Willow (D.B. Sweeney), Clell can see a surrogate son and his best younger self. He knows Jackie will shine in war or go down in flames -- an epitaph for Icarus. Alas, Gardens of Stone goes down in smoke; unlike other, more delirious failures by its director, Francis Coppola, the new picture goes not far enough. This requiem for a young man lost to war sleepwalks like a family mourner; it plays taps to its own best intentions...
...character flaw as old as Icarus was in evidence last week. Behind all the revelations lurked arrogance, a modern hubris. Hart dared the press to stalk him, as though no disclosure could wound him. Secord disdainfully asserted that he could run foreign policy better than those designated to do so. And all along, the President assumed that no one would find out he was sending arms to Iran and evading, rather than enforcing, the ban on aid to the contras. They all wrapped themselves in their own misguided certainty, believing they were immune not only from harm but from public...
...this be happening in America? Or is the question rhetorical in the land of pioneers: How free can you be, Mr. Icarus...