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...between 1960 and 1980. Fischl is not a mature artist yet, but he deserves nothing but respect for his struggle to create a mode of figuration that is tense, dramatic and full of body. He has managed to reconstruct at least some of his birthright; his figures, though they inhabit a wildly different sexual and psychic world from that of late-19th century America, have a direct matter-of-factness that reminds one of Winslow Homer. But the signs of loss do show...
Director Jennifer Harris chose a crude set for the play that appropriately looks as prefab as the houses that the play's characters inhabit--and the characters themselves...
Rendell's most recent work, Talking to Strange Men (Pantheon; 280 pages; $16.95), eerily recalls Lord of the Flies. Her schoolboys and -girls are not washed up on some island but housed in upper-middle-class comfort. Yet mentally they inhabit an unseen world where they play an elaborate game of spy and counterspy, conducted with high solemnity and utter ruthlessness. This emotional tinderbox is ignited when the espionage is discovered by an unstable outsider who believes he has found evidence of treason. Rendell's trademark is to invert the classic adventure story: rather than transmute ordinary men into heroes...
Robin Williams stalks a concert stage, conning inspiration from the ether. In a nightclub, a customer's name will spark a from-nowhere verbal riff. And in the course of an hour's interview, he will miraculously inhabit the skewed brains of two dozen apparitions. Among them: a meat-eating Mahatma Gandhi, Gomer Pyle with a case of VD, Elvis Presley drafted for Viet Nam, Wheel of Fortune's Pat Sajak and, of course, a singing hunchback. Here is Williams speaking about his role as Good Morning, Vietnam's gonzo deejay: "God, it can't get any more right than...
...Israel gradually claimed one-third of the strip as "state land" and built 18 Israeli settlements for about 2,200 Jews. Life is far more cramped for Gaza's Palestinians: some 5,440 people occupy each square mile, a density that approaches Hong Kong's. The Jews inhabit a beach-front enclave that is fast growing into an Israeli Riviera. But more than 60% of Gaza's Arabs are refugees, most of whom live in squalid United Nations camps built 40 years ago. In the camp of Nuseirat, Sabha, a 50-year- old woman, finds only despair. "There...