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...play is saved from being overly grave and melodramatic by Horowitz's fine ear for both the poetic and comic rhythms of natural speech. His characters speak that elliptical language made familiar by Pinter--a series of monologues that only rarely intersect, made up of short-circuited sentences, non-sequiturs and repetitions. The special idiom of the absurdist play demands from its actors a particular sensitivity to the purely aural qualities of speech as well as split-second timing and O'Brien never lets his cast miss a beat...
...Henry Timm, who seems made for the portly malevolence of Kafka's worst bureaucrats, these skits are well done. Playing the father, the magistrates, and the ape who discovers humanity in a bottle of Schnapps, Timm has a masterful sense of just where it is that absurdity and humor intersect...
...path of totality, while lecturers on board discuss the fine points of the event overhead. The best view should be obtained by seven French, British and American scientists. On June 30, they will board a supersonic Concorde jet in Las Palmas, in the Canary Islands, fly south and intersect the path of totality near Chinguetti. Then they will race the moon's shadow across some 1,700 miles of Africa at nearly Mach 2 speeds (1,300 m.p.h.). Traveling at times only slightly slower than the shadow itself, they will see the blackout for some 80 minutes, longer than...
...affords them small pleasure. But they give themselves to different men in the doomed hope that they will find their identity at the point where all the lines of male force intersect. Even motherhood fails to bring Moravian women alive. Mirrors appear again and again, mocking the ladies who stand be fore them for being less real than their reflections. In Moravia's world, the furniture has more personality than the people who sit upon...
...along. President Nixon and his advisers knew that a crucial time of testing for the Administration's Viet Nam policy had to come. With geometric inevitability, the descending curve that describes the withdrawal of U.S. ground combat forces would have to intersect the curve that plots rising South Vietnamese responsibility for the war. At that juncture, Hanoi would surely test the American resolve, Nixon's own commitment to his policy, and the staying power of the South Vietnamese. Four weeks ago, that testing point arrived with brutal bluntness when a carefully orchestrated force of North Vietnamese soldiers, well backed...