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...MOST POWERFUL works of the exhibition are a series of brisk sketches and tense, tormented oils done during the fatal illness of his mistress Valentine Gode-Darel in 1914 and 1915. Hodler is obsessed with death throughout his career--the death of an earlier mistress in 1909 had been captured in a Munch-like oil full of looming and vertiginous space. Through the series, the curved, living lines of the woman's face grow harsh and geometrical, until a final version shows the corpse, bony and stiff, with the bedclothes around it indicated by a chaos of loose lines...
...Kurt Vonnegut explains on the opening page, Hoover is "on the brink of going insane." He has many reasons of the traditional kind: his wife went mad and killed herself by swallowing Drano; his hostile son is a homosexual who plays piano in a cocktail lounge; and his mistress, of whom he wants to know "what life is all about," suggests that the site across from their motel room would be a good place for him to buy her a Colonel Sanders Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise. More important than any of this, though, is the fact that Dwayne...
...connection is made. Dwayne Hoover goes on a rampage against all the people whom he once thought to be the inviolable guardians of his worldly prison. He attacks his son at the piano, he attacks his mistress and breaks her ribs, he attacks a woman novelist newly arrived for the arts festival, he attacks two black kitchen workers, he attacks random acquaintances and random strangers, and we last see him being carted away, along with several of his victims, in an ambulance called the Martha Simmons Memorial Mobile Disaster Unit, and talking vaguely about the prospects of investing in health...
...aphoristic, but they lack the pith and elegance of fine aphorisms. Her true forte is the sniper fire of sarcasm in which one character fells another in midstep or midsentence. Many of these lines fall to the busybody superbitch played by Alexis Smith, and she is a past mistress of the lethal riposte...
...dead king's son, Orestes, goaded to revenge by his sister Electra, proceeds to murder his mother and Aegisthus. Rabe has drastically minimized Electra's role, but he provides two Clytemnestras, possibly to differentiate the mother's grief from the lust and vengefulness of the mistress (Rae Allen...