Word: mckie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unknown source, the Calebens. (No Shakespearian connotations, as they are good guys.) Outside of Dosadi's wall is a complex universe with a tenuous power balance among humans, the frog-like Gowachins and the death-dancing wreaves--with their Kung-fu-like movements and poisoned mandibles. Jorj X. McKie, a red-haired man of Polynesian descent, is the only human accepted as a Legum in the Gowachin legal system. Herbert fails to give the legal cult the depth of Dune's Bene Gesserit witches but he still shows traces of his creative genius...
...McKie has divided loyalties as he is also the most feared agent of the universe's counterweight to the Gowachin order, the Bureau of Sabotage, a cross between the CIA and the Texas Rangers. McKie, in a previous book, gained the power to communicate with the Calibens who, in actuality, are the stars. His special Caliben protector is Fannie...
Some of Herbert's scenes are masterful, and only further frustrate the reader by showing how well Herbert can write. A conversation between McKie and a Gowachin takes on the intensity and precision of military strategy. With a minimum of narration and a taut dialogue, the scene provides one of the book's few gripping passages...
...romance between McKie and the female Keila Jedrick, the most cunning of the hostile planet's products, is the book's focal point. Though the two have their good moments, especially when they unite their minds, this relationship fails to carry the book with the necessary emotion...
...display: "Photography Unlimited"--through Oct. 16, unusual and sometimes disturbing experimental images by contemporary photographers. Also: "19th and 20th Century American Portraits in Prints, Drawing and Sculpture"--through September. Artists exhibited include Sargent, Copley and Whistler--a great chance to find out what Louis Agassiz really looked like. Todd McKie, who last year drew some snide comments for his cartoon-like watercolors in a show at the Museum of Fine Arts, is featured in "Contemporary Boston Artists: Works on paper", through Sept. 29 on the drawing balcony. I was one who disdained his long-nosed humanoid figures, and their omission...