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...five-member band combines disjointed, provocative lyrics with a strong backing of jazzy rhythm. The band's two lead singers, Simon Magus and Dawn Dinda, improvise wildly amidst a flood of colored lights while bassist John Voorhes does Pete Townshend leaps in the background...
Real as these perplexities are, it would be a shame if Fowles' potential audience were put off by them, for A Maggot is also an immensely rich, readable book, full of passages as haunting and provocative as anything in The Magus or The French Lieutenant's Woman...
...fifth novel, Author John Fowles again performs the sort of narrative legerdemain that made both The Magus (1966) and The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) such popular puzzlers. He raises tantalizing and entertaining questions. Why, for openers, does he call this novel Mantissa and then provide a self-deprecatory definition of the word, "An addition of comparatively small importance, especially to a literary effort or discourse"? Does that mean readers seeking substantial fare should look elsewhere? Other queries quickly arise. Is this Erato who breaks into Miles' story real or a figment of his imagination? Wait a minute...
Detroit and other businesses, however, must remember that the Government is not some new Magus who comes bearing gifts but never asks for anything in return. Chrysler Chairman Iacocca now serves two masters: his board of directors and the Chrysler Loan Guarantee Board in Washington, which, for example...
However, the Magus Theater Production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a shining exception to this rule. Director Alan W. Mianulli has taken full advantage of the talents of his cast and crew to create a living production that completely avoids stereotype. Mianulli has refused to allow his production to wallow in the swamp of bitter recrimination and contempt. And although feelings of bitterness just out unobscured. Mianulli has injected a measure of compassion to smooth the jagged edges...