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LOVE AND REVOLUTION, by Max Eastman. The autobiography of a onetime radical editor and longtime happy warrior against repression, be it sexual (he once shared a mistress with Charlie Chaplin) or Communist...
LOVE AND REVOLUTION, by Max Eastman. The autobiography of a onetime radical editor and longtime happy warrior against repression, be it sexual (he once shared a mistress with Charlie Chaplin) or Communist...
...Grass's The Tin Drum and Heinrich Böll's Billiards at Half-Past Nine. In The Clown, Böll tells the story of Hans Schnier, a young professional pantomimist who specializes (like his author) in satirizing German complacency. Schnier is in desperate straits: his mistress Marie has left him, his bookings have dried up, he is broke. For almost the entire novel he sits by the telephone, appealing to his family and friends. But when he asks for help-a loan, a job, information about Marie, a kind word-he gets nothing. Thus the novel...
Within a few years Peter strikes it rich with a videotic series called Ben Bullet. He takes to wearing one of those silk-sheen suits that look like beaten stainless steel. In his pocket is an offstage mistress, but under his collar is prickly...
...kill-and-make-up reconciliation scene. Under Joe Layton's fluid direction, it is a remarkably resourceful display of in-bed infighting. The sight gags are eruptively funny and the dialogue blends the flip quip with the rueful truth, as when Pat says to Peter apropos of his mistress: "Just think, if you had married her ten years ago, today you could be having an affair with...