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...remarked that a black writer has an advantage because, being black, he has been forced to live in an isolated room in the nation's house, thus when he emerges from that room into the rest of the house, he knows the entire structure. So too for any Irishman, Chinese, Puerto Rican, a member of a minority religion or of none at all. Without a sense of unbelonging, one might never cast a critical eye on the majority culture, which in a way minorities cherish for their difference from...
...ACTORS PLAY their roles dutifully and perceptively, but too often they tend to wail and to repeat the same frenzied gestures. Appearing overwhelmed by their characters' anguish, they give the production a pretentious note of melodrama. As James Tyrone, Kevin Walker seems the archetypal rough-edged Irishman: loving--if slightly clumsy--towards his wife, self-righteous and defensive towards his sons. But his mannerisms and reactions are too stiff and blatant. He gapes to show he's shocked, shouts to show he's angry. He fails to convey Tyrone's appealing undercurrent of charm, or any of his amusing qualities...
...didn't know very much about Nebraska," reflects this joyful Irishman from Michigan who restored the Cornhuskers' glory. "For instance, how pretty the city of Lincoln really is. Scenery is not exactly a coach's priority. Duffy Daugherty [who coached Michigan State for 19 years] told me the people loved football and supported the team irregardless of the record. 'Of course,' Duffy said, 'they're more friendly when you win.' " Devaney won immediately and spectacularly. After a 3-6-1 season in 1961, the Cornhuskers took nine of eleven games in Devaney...
...bound to overshadow the specific range of a single novel. Fools of Fortune, while it is engrossing stuff like virtually everything Trevor writes, takes on too great a task in too little space. ranging over the years 1918 to 1983, including a story of doomed love between an Irishman and his English cousin, and rupturing the plot with a devising tragedy in which the young protagonist's father and sisters are massacred by the "Black and Tans," Fools of Fortuneencompasses the sort of tragedy and desolation that might have kept Thomas Hardy going for a few hundred pages. In many...
...this film after making his name as the cinematographer of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Personal Best, brings a virginal intensity to each hoary plot device. He hardly gives his audience time to realize that the football team is only an updated platoon from a 1940s war movie (the Irishman with his well-fingered rosary, the Italian with his letch for the ladies, the slow Poles and happy blacks), or that the big football game follows a scenario that is both predictable and improbable (with only a few seconds left to play, the coach calls for a hand...