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...volts lasted 30 seconds. Smoke and steam rose from his head. A fiery arc shot from beneath the mask that covered his face. Smoke poured from the electrode on his left leg. Through the rain outside came the mournful notes of taps being played on a trumpet by a prisoner in his cell...
Joey, 36, a loader at a truck terminal in Brooklyn, got his supply from a man wearing a ski mask at a bustling "drug market" five minutes from work. "I'd go during my breaks and at lunch, picking up four to eight nickel [$5] bags at a time," he says. "If it was payday, I could run through my whole check [$515]." Joey, now in a drug-abuse treatment program, says he is "trying to find a place where there is no dope...
John, I saw a picture of Eleanor Roosevelt. I thought she was wearing a gas mask...
...most of his previous works, Neil Simon has parried the perils of heart-to-heart emotional commitment with a disarming quip. A loose upper lip has been his tactic for keeping pain in quarantine. With an ironclad consistency, he has been the Man in the Comic Mask...
...endearing aspect of Brighton Beach Memoirs is that the mask has slipped a little. Without slighting his potent comic gifts, Simon looks back, not in anger, remorse or undue guilt but with fondly nourished compassion, at himself as an adolescent in 1937 and at the almost asphyxiatingly close-knit family around him. While the play housed at Broadway's Alvin Theater does not fully attain the playwright's highest aims, it does give off compelling glints of an urban Morning's at Seven, a ghetto Our Town and a wryly caustic Ah, Wilderness! Like them, Brighton Beach...