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...white tents set side by side on a field of blue. As Australia drops behind, boredom is kept at bay on Provincetown by the practice of underdoggery, a game I know well from a boyhood spent as a diehard Red Sox fan, living in New York and watching the pin-striped Yankees destroy my hopes for a pennant year after year. The America's Cup brings out all the low dodges, delusive hopes and suspensions of common sense so essential to refined underdoggery...
...Plagued by nightmares, the girl wakes paler each morning. (An example of the excruciating mental processes: The girl has two tiny cuts on her neck. Wolves howl on the moor. Bats rustle in the window curtains. "We suspect the wounds are the result of an accident with a safety pin, used when fastening her scarf," remarks the good doctor Seward, our man of science.) Soon to arrive on the scene are Jonathan Hacker, Lucy's fiance (tall, freckled, devoted) and Dr. Van Helsing, a colleague of Seward (fat, Dutch, intellectual...
...lacking in some of the other pieces. You may not agree with Schumacher's most profoundly-held life truth, "that the world is divided between people who have had analysis and people who haven't," but at least you are presented with a real character instead of a mere pin...
WHEN YOU CLOSE this magazine and line your wastebasket with it, or pin the cover on your memo board--each to his own--you may wonder why such mediocre personalities as those the magazine describes are the heroes and heroines of our society. In this sense the editors of Interview should not be blamed for the dreariness of the scenes they record. Form tends to follow content, and it would take genius to paint most ofInterview's subjects in other than flat planes...
Fortunately the author has a genuine gift for characterization. Grijpstra is something of a slob mismarried to another slob of grotesque dimension who stares at TV all day and wears innumerable pin curlers to bed. De Gier is a romantic who is too realistic to marry. He prefers the company of his flute and his neurotic Siamese cat, Oliver...