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...refreshingly honest and strangely accurate. He can make Armageddon fascinating, and even his most psychotic visions are driven by a tough, even slightly old-fashioned sensibility--somehow we sense a practical aptitude for survival in his crazed, technicolor world of fear and loathing. What is rather disconcerting about the manic charm of his apocalyptic perception is that the line between reality and his hallucinatory interpretation of it is getting thinner every...
...ramshackle stage is enough to erase any slick overtones from the beginning, and here it is used to the best advantage by Dave Fuller's manic sets. Murray's apartment has the disarray of a closet overflowing with athletic equipment. The occupant of this holocaust is played by Bill Schley, who coaxed his Murray from a slow start into a performance of unassuming ease: this is fitting in a character that can tend to brash self-righteousness. Walter Murphy, a fifteen-year-old from an acting program at Phillips Brooks House, plays Nick (who, at Murray's urging, calls himself...
Gregory is remarkable for sheer theatricality. His special gift is to alter the ratio of expectation between an audience and a work. In Endgame, he has taken an austere doomsday play and injected it with manic laughing...
...last third of the book is taken up with the journey of Reuben through The City, into which he plunges after a long struggle with manic depression and bad luck. The City is an inferno with eerie similarities to the surface world that Reuben has just left. The inhabitants of The City survive in a condition they cannot bear and cannot conceive of escaping from. They endure by shooting heroin (the whole book could work on the level of a descent into a junkie's world), by eating human flesh out of insane hunger; they cower in corners to avoid...
...leave The Last Fair Deal Going Down as from the complete cycle of a drug--reeling, dazed, and adjusting again to an old reality in a new way. The brooding silence of the Midwest is manic and never bucolic like it was. There may be a quieter, more determined explosion building up there--a tension less frenetic than the cities, less jaded than the South, and less crazily precarious than the Far West. The Middle West could begin to figure in American literature in a big way, and the heart of our country could become the backdrop for the heart...