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Making subtle references to such theater big-wigs as Antonin Artaud and David Merrick throughout, Levin, like Altman, adds a certain element of inside humor to his work. Picking up on and, more importantly, understanding Levin's allusions allows audience members a most gratifying sense of satisfaction. This "I know something you don't know" component somehow compensates for the feeling that Levin otherwise seems to be out to trick...
...show empathizer Oprah Winfrey, Jackson is at heart as vulnerable as the handicapped children he generously welcomes to his ranch near Santa Barbara, California. He calls it Neverland, an allusion to his status as pop's Peter Pan. But Jackson may feel more kinship with another English outsider, John Merrick -- that sweet-souled, tragically deformed creature, the Elephant Man. "I love the story," he told Winfrey. "It reminds me of me a lot . . . It made me cry because I saw myself in the story...
...charges against her are true -- and even her attorney does not seem to dispute her career as a pubescent prostitute -- Fisher's sordid story still would seem to have little to reveal about the norms of her community. Her town of Merrick is a place where success is equated with discipline, exemplified in the manicured lawns and shrubbery of Berkley Lane, where she grew up, and with drive and ambition, epitomized in the way the high school carries grade-point averages out to four decimal places for precision in class rank. This is where the American Dream still works, where...
...curtain came down for Warmus and Esker, the legal theater was just beginning for a Merrick, N.Y., teen indicted for attempting to murder -- you guessed it -- her lover's wife. Last week grand jury deliberations wrapped up in the case of the girl the press called Long Island's Lolita. Playing Humbert Humbert was Joseph Buttafuoco, a 38-year-old auto mechanic who had an affair with the young woman. Their relationship apparently soured, and the teenager became "obsessed with revenge," said Daniel Severin, a Nassau County police detective...
Typical of the folksy side of the Perot crusade is the storefront office that volunteers have just opened in a minimall in Irvine, Calif. A driving force here is Merrick Okamoto, 31, a stockbroker, never before involved in politics, who brought in his own television set and VCR so that the faithful can watch tapes of Perot's TV appearances. "People who deny Perot's popularity just don't get it," Okamoto explains. "This movement is about choice. People can't stand another four years of gridlock." Nearly 500 turned out for a Perot rally in Irvine -- middle-class, middle...