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...heart, though, In the Line of Fire is a conversation between two sides of a smart, troubled mind. In a series of phone chats, Leary toys with Horrigan, hovers like a dark angel or a guilty conscience, lets the agent see his fun- house mirror image in an assassin's paranoid logic. Why kill the President? "To punctuate the dreariness." At the end of the cold war and the American century, Leary says, "there's no cause left worth fighting for. All that's left is the game. I'm on offense; you're on defense...
Dancers were nervous; they didn't practice at home in front of the mirror until their swaggers were perfect, like the alternative crowd did. Even though the DJ sounded like he did nothing but switch the dial from ZOU to KISS all night, and even though women and men dressed to the height of the Tello's aesthetic, no one was looking to make a scene...
...ever look in the mirror and ask herself if this was all a dream? "No. It sounds ridiculous now, but then it was natural." Her marriage to Randolph, a noted drinker and gambler, broke up in 1945 (the couple had one son, Winston, now in the House of Commons), and Pamela moved to France...
...tall, short, pudgy, burly. If the person she is enacting speaks Spanish or Korean, so does she. This kind of artful transformation, although essential to the work she does, is the least impressive of her gifts. In her On the Road pieces for regional theaters, in Fires in the Mirror off-Broadway and on PBS, and now in Twilight, she has created a new art form...
Fires in the Mirror portrayed a specific conflict between blacks and Hasidic Jews in Crown Heights, a sui generis neighborhood of Brooklyn. Twilight, by contrast, is sprawling. It embraces complex social, economic and political issues. It concerns events that involved millions of people and captured attention around the world. It portrays perhaps the most diverse place in America and asks whether such a place -- such a purported model for the national future -- can survive. For every character onstage, Smith debriefed six more who didn't make the cut, including the mayor, Hollywood stars and a U.S. Senator...