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EASY TRAVEL TO OTHER PLANETS by Ted Mooney Farrar, Straus & Giroux 278 pages...
...this does not sound like a recipe for trendy froth, then nothing can. But Author Ted Mooney adds some marijuana and gin, stirs and comes up with a substantial and moving first novel. For one thing, circumstantial whimsey is balanced against the pathos of characters trying to take their increasingly weird lives seriously. The air around them is "full of microwaves and jets." An apartment-house elevator contains a TV set; during a short ride up, the operator switches dials and treats his passengers to snippets of six old movies. Strange rituals proliferate; at airports, Mooney's people watch...
...vampirism on an up-beat note. Albee faithfully recreates Nabokov's part-farcical, part-horrifying murder scene: as the last act of his love-obsession, Humbert tracks down and decides to kill the man who had eventually helped Lolita escape him--the effeminate playwright Clare Quilty, played by William Mooney (standing in for Clive Revill in the performance I saw). Mooney enters from the top of a long, garishly majestic stairway leading down into a scene of post-party streamers, ashtrays and drinks. Sutherland announces his death sentence to him in the form of a ponderous poem, and pumps ineffective...
...Political asylum allows Walter to stay," says INS Spokesman Verne Jervis. "That's all it does. It does not require him to stay or deal with the issue of custody." Chicago Juvenile Court Judge Joseph Mooney scheduled a hearing this week to determine whether Walter will be placed in the custody of one of his two U.S. aunts or be returned to his father. Although U.S. custody law has traditionally sought to avoid splitting up families under almost any circumstances, Walter's attorney will argue that his future would be seriously jeopardized by being forced to return...
...practice and may be healed for Saturday's UConn game, goalie Billy Blood rose to the task on the one or two occasions he was tested. With about 15 minutes left he leapt high to punch a free kick away from the dangerous head of 6'5" Steve Mooney...