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...castle, moated by ignorance. For the two hours preceding this pirouette into psychodrama, Home Front is fiercely sympathetic to all of its characters. Beneath Mom's lyrical ditsiness and Dad's clumsy evasions are two frightened people who care, beyond words, for their son. But because Jeremy's rage is beyond their comprehension, they can only stand by, then stand firm, as the boy plays out his nightmare...
...universal," says Morrow. "One day in early fall I flew with the Reagan campaign to Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Outside the hall we could still see the protesters with angry signs. But inside there was a raucous, triumphal, almost overbearing energy. It was as if the campus rage of the '60s had been turned inside...
...Britain earlier this year, Jewel became a fashionable rage and a national addiction. Each week it held 8 million viewers hostage; it sparked a revisionist debate in the press about imperial guilt and glory; and, in the end, it was almost unanimously acclaimed. Jewel's subject may seem more distant to American viewers. But they would be well advised to set aside their Sunday evenings for the next three months to follow this uncommonly rewarding series. There could be no truer memorial to Scott's quiet masterpiece and no grander elegy to the ambiguous power of the Empire...
...lines like, "An aside, Ape! Did you never hear an aside." Even the phrasing of that line suggests a more cultivated mind, acutely aware of his dramatic presence. Although Beckett's characters are painfully aware of their calculated, verbal chess match, Akalaitis' flail at each other in fits of rage. A more cold-blooded conversation would make Hamm's torture of Clov seem more horrifyingly vicious and his occasional displays of genuine emotion more shockingly pathetic. While the characters should be raw, they need not be barbaric. They need not, as this Hamm does, pee on the floor...
THIS TIME it was an airstrip in Tehran. And in a rage of powerlessness, we waited anxiously for word that the threats, the beatings, the killings had ended...