Word: kurtz
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...River with Kurtz...
...luck than killer instinct. In the sequel, he reappears as the almost impossibly intense and charismatic?though still somber?terrorist mastermind. Holed up in his ramshackle fort, torn between enlightened world-weariness and revolutionary zeal, he's a teenage mix of Osama bin Laden and Joseph Conrad's Kurtz. "They may call us evil," announces the philosopher-terrorist in a bin Laden-style address, "but we'll never abandon our struggle for justice...
Around this time, Pappas was approached by Tim Kurtz, a former Gold’s Gym regional director who owned a health supplements store in Watertown. Kurtz wanted to start serving food alongside his vitamins and, in 1999, the two partnered to put the plan into action. Watertown was the site of the first Lo Fat Know Fat and, following its success, a second restaurant in Shrewsbury, Mass., was opened. A third restaurant is due in Stoughton, Mass., this summer. Pappas hopes to have 10 new restaurants within the next few years and wants to rival the big fast food...
Ephron has imagined the two of them (Swoosie Kurtz, brittle and snappish as Hellman; Cherry Jones, elegant and withering as McCarthy) meeting in the afterlife, railing at each other anew. "I ruined your third act!" exults McCarthy. "I was your third act!" retorts Hellman. Ephron's play, alas, has two acts full of distractions and gimmicks. There are childhood flashbacks that force grown actresses to talk like widdle girls. The literary men in their lives (Edmund Wilson, Philip Rahv) are trotted on and off the stage like stuffed dummies. There are actual stuffed dummies too--a cutesy stage device that...
...into his tale, the Victorian stuffiness melts. Drake, a confused man too modern for his time, takes the Burma assignment to escape the strictures of imperialist London. He makes a surreal journey to a village on the Salween River, where he meets Surgeon-Major Anthony Carroll?this story's Kurtz. After several months in Carroll's polymathic world of specimen collections and local power struggles, Drake is forced to flee. The Piano Tuner ends gracefully, if vaguely, with Drake's final escape from the dilemma of choosing between two realities: that of the imperialists and that of Carroll's native...