Word: protagonists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...selling 1984 novel, Tough Guys Don't Dance, the film is set in the autumnal gloom of the Cape Cod resort that he has frequented for years. In fact, aptly enough, the director's brick-faced home has been taken over to serve as the onscreen abode of his protagonist Tim Madden, a onetime boxer and womanizing writer who wakes up one morning with a case of alcoholic amnesia and the vague apprehension that he may have killed his wife. Due for release next fall, Tough Guys is a step up from three low-budget bombs Mailer directed during...
...trying to mingle modern theatrical ideas with traditional Shakespearean performance, Freinkel has created a play with more internal conflicts than even Macbeth himself. Given the problems of producing college Shakespeare, perhaps she should have adopted a less reverent attitude and an even more experimental appraoch. Like its accursed protagonist, this production of Macbeth seems "cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd, bound in to saucy doubts and fears...
...play opens with the timely revival of the protagonist, Lantry, played with admirable perseverence by Adam Fratto. Apparently the citizens of future Earth have decided that human bodies are a form of toxic waste, and so have exhumed and burned every last corpse--with the exception of Lantry, who springs to life and escapes...
Cranes is also about "coming of age." As the young writer struggles to gain control of his talent, the young adult similarly searches for love and happiness. Like Philip, Leavitt frequently lacks perspective. Still, the parallel somehow makes the excesses of the author and his protagonist a bit more tolerable. Writing, like romance, works best when the participants are mature, confident, and know when to be silent. Both David Leavitt and his main character are still maturing...
Especially inventive are Nabokov's condensed metaphors, like those in the poetry of imagists such as Ezra Pound. Eerie images flash through the half-aware mind. In the midst of a frenzy of frustrated desire, the protagonist fleetingly notes that the morning's newspaper is dated the 32nd. When the sleepy little girl is led into the hotel, she watches a "doubling cat" through her blurred vision...