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...A.R.T. regulars put on uniformly excellent performances--they're well accustomed to the meta-theatrical games of The Day Room. Having toured with the show, they have perfected DeLillo's twisted conception of dialogue. Hipster author Jay McInerny, who seems to have royally ripped off DeLillo's Americana in his best-selling Bright Lights, Big City, has pointed out that DeLillo captures speech patterns everyone recognizes but no one writes. His one-liners and brilliant speeches are always a bit skewed--his characters never quite connect with their minds, leading to bizarre propositions like...
...docked in one of the aptly named Singles. My room had previously been occupied by someone with infectious hepatitis. Great, I thought. Strictly speaking, I had no roommates; but the eight gents on my floor who formed a bathroom unit, became one meta-rooming group. I never ventured fully into this circle of hell, living as I was in a sensory deprivation tank of a room...
...articles on the T.V. drug don't just proliferate, they pullulate. And one has to feel we have scaled the pinnacle of absurdity when T.V. performs a dialogue between self and soul and covers the trial of a young felon who blames his crime on T.V. derangement. Is that meta-television...
JANET MALCOLM HANDLES these questions deftly. If, as Aaron Green contends, analysts are voyeurs "at the window watching what's going on in the bedroom, getting very excited, but not jumping into the fray," then Malcolm gives a solid boost to anyone who wants to be a meta-voyeur--someone to peep in on the bedroom and the first voyeur too. She falters only once, rambling through several pages of some sort of amateur Jungian explanation of Freud's motivations for giving a particular patient pseudonym. Except for this humorously obsessional bit of lay analysis, Malcolm has an intelligent authorial...
...infernal quadrangle straight out of Gone With the Wind (Lane, Sam, Fielding and Constance playing the roles of Scarlett, Rhett, Ashley and Melanie) with motives and M.O.s provocatively askew; randy women jackknifing their long bare legs around any man who will come near a canopied bed; meta-trash dialogue like "You're trouble, girl, nothin' but trouble." At the moment, a crushing share of the dramatic burden falls on the strong, hairy shoulders of Mark Harmon. His character, who is both rising-star politician and star-crossed lover, as yet shows no consuming letch for power...