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...very special circumstances. Perhaps only once a millennium will a nobleman state that an actor-playwright will die either from venereal disease or hanging. Samuel Foote's riposte: "My Lord, that will depend upon one of two contingencies -whether I embrace your lordship's mistress or your lordship's principles." Hardly more common is the straight line offered to James Joyce by a burbling admirer: "May I kiss the hand that wrote Ulysses?" Snapped Joyce: "No, it did a lot of other things too!" When prompted by the right question, even T.S. Eliot was capable of turning...
...here is a runaway heiress (Melanie Griffith, daughter of Actress Tippi Hedren) whose obviously devious mother hires the shamus to find her. The search introduces him to plenty of colorful company, notably a movie stunt man, before he finds the girl holed up with a shabby stepfather and his mistress (Jennifer Warren) on the Florida Keys, where they manage a dubious-looking sea and air charter service. A traumatizing accident-or is it murder?-shocks the girl into docility and a return home where, doing extra work in a movie, she herself suffers a fatal accident-or is it murder...
...Maxwell turns in a masterfully understated performance as Snorty McGee, a third bootlegger who masquerades as a butler and surveys the frantic goings-on with a mildly amused detachment, politely refusing to adopt anything resembling a servile manner. Calmly observing a violent quarrel between his newly wedded "master" and "mistress," he helpfully supplies the words to finish off the sentences they are sputtering and in the tense full that follows the outburst, says with infuriating matter of factness, "Well, I suppose you're waiting to hear what I think of all this...
Borderland by Neil Claremon. 192 pages. Knopf. $6.95. This remarkable novelette refutes an ancient adage: blood can be coaxed from a stone. The stone is that adamantine sector between Mexico and the U.S. The blood is the fervent tale of an American scientist, J.P., and his Indian mistress, Tsari. J.P.'s gift is an ordinary one: he can only find water under dry land. Tsari has more profound talents: in trances she can heal wounds, commune with animals and see the human soul. It is a secret that she comes in time to share-with ambiguous and perhaps dire...
Soon Lulu becomes as buggy as his friend. He turns rabidly political, delivers fiery speeches about the necessities of industrial reform, resistance and strike. For his pains, his mistress leaves him and the police beat him up. In politics as in work, Lulu's greatest quality- his enthusiasm-is eventually turned against...