Word: levins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MARK R. LEVIN...
There quickly followed an unseemly scramble to ensure oil deliveries on a purely nationalist basis, an "I'm all right. Jack" attitude that prompted London Times Columnist Bernard Levin to write: "The fact is that nothing in the realms of cowardice, selfishness, cant and shortsighted folly is beyond the bounds of possibility in view of what has actually happened already. The first time-the very first time-that any external strain is put on the Common Market alliance, the ties that bind its members snap. No, they do not snap; the members themselves rush forward to snap them...
After Shirley Jackson, Ira Levin et al., Maloff can hardly rock the reader with such corny corn-god doings Yet he handles the shift from Teddy bears to ritual sacrifice with skill, tact and humor. He has also produced a fable for our feminist times...
...sort of suspense thriller, the audience is let in on a secret that the characters do not know. In another, the characters possess some piece of knowledge that the audience is in the dark about. Inadvertently, Ira Levin has written a mystery in which his characters seem to know something that has eluded him. Veronica's Room poses a puzzle in the first act and tries to resolve it with three or four new puzzles in the second act. Result: frustration...
Playwright Levin develops the weirdness of his characters at the expense of their motivations. Thus incest, necrophilia and schizophrenic identity shifts enter the picture without clarifying it. This is a jigsaw puzzle with too many pieces...