Word: pinter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Times is Pinter at his dramatic best. In this triangular tug-of-war, slow, measured exchanges marked by his famous pauses alternate with exquisitely lyrical monologues. Like the absurdists, Pinter suggests the fluidity of reality by riveting attention on the language that expresses it. His characters wonder at words, make verbal slips and fall silent. Gradually, as the stakes become clearer, the walls of civility they erect crumble; by the end, the ineluctable presence of the past bathes the stage with white light, illumining their loneliness and need...
...genre, with their vaudevillian non sequiturs, wryly autumnal philosophizing about existence and wackily disconcerting knee-jerk humor, have become rare. In part, audiences have adjusted to the metaphysical void that permeates absurdist drama, the absence of meaning and purpose that so puzzled and infuriated them when the early Pinter plays appeared...
...Duck Variations, a bright young playwright, David Mamet, 28, displays the Pinter trait of wearing word masks to shield feelings and of defying communication in the act of communicating...
...skills as a serious dramatist, Harold Pinter, 45, seems to have patterned his private life after a daytime soap opera. Last summer the British author of The Homecoming separated from his wife of 19 years, Actress Vivien Merchant, 46, and took up housekeeping with Lady Antonia Fraser, 43, a whirling dervish of London society, a biographer (Mary Queen of Scots) and mother of six. Tory M.P. Hugh Fraser kept discreetly quiet about his wife's affair, but Merchant sued Pinter for divorce, and the new lovemates quickly assumed a low public profile. Lately, however, those profiles have ventured back...
...first half-hour or so, the movie is funny, coruscating-almost like pratfall Pinter, as the brash family gradually overwhelms the Professor...