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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...
After an inexplicably fatuous introduction that sounds like Joseph Conrad's Mr. Kurtz singing "Nobody knows the carnage I've seen" (he writes, "I have, at what cost I do not yet know...done my best to rub my own nose in the horror of the world"), Rieff settles into hard, intelligent analysis...
...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...
...details and themes in a long and truly frightening piece, "Michael X and the Black Power Killings in Trinidad," he turned into his novel Guerrillas. In "A New King for Congo," his meditation on the late Zairean kleptocrat, President Mobutu, he alludes to Heart of Darkness, comparing Conrad's Kurtz to Mobutu: "Seventy years later, at this bend in the river, something like Conrad's fantasy came to pass. But the man was black, and not white; and he had been maddened not by contact with wilderness and primitivism, but with civilization." This is Naipaul's first...
Scoring: H Goals: Kutner, Brooks, Belitsos, Shaughnessy, O’Brien. H Assists: Moroz. M Goals: Robinson 4, Zelinger 3, Kain, Kurtz. M Assists—Kurtz, Emery, Pollack. Shots: H 19, M 20. Draw Controls: H 9, M 5. Free Positions: H 1-for-5, M 2-for-6. Saves: H Mancini 5, M Doyle...