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...Carey and Republican challenger Perry B. Duryea, minority leader of the state assembly, have managed to reduce the decision on who is to run a state of 16 million people, whose cities tread regularly on the edge of bankruptcy and whose social service agencies are crumbling from dry rot and sheer neglect, into a banal game of phony partisan issues and political "Who Do You Trust?" Score two points for aggressive mediocrity...
...first emerged as a member of the Auden circle, the preternaturally clever group of young writers who came down from Oxford and inherited The Waste Land. The legacy was intimidating. Not only did Eliot's masterpiece seem to leave scorched earth for subsequent poetry, but the apocalyptic dry rot it portrayed cried out for desperate measures beyond the range of literature. Spender and his contemporaries, including Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cyril...
What distinguishes Sam Shepard from a score of promising and prolific young U.S. dramatists is that he is our most persistent social critic. Not that he indulges in the finger pointing that characterizes post-Watergate morality. Always in sorrow and never in anger, he exposes the dry rot that has eroded the faith and commitment of Americans to the triple pillars of society-God, family and country. His style varies from surrealistic to naturalistic to pop, and all of his plays contain an unsettling mixture of wild humor and harrowing revelation...
...winding dirt road from Harar to the front, small huts of clay bricks and thatched grass roofs were burned by occupying Somali forces, then hit by rockets and bombs from Ethiopian warplanes. Now the rubble lies mixed with brass shell casings, shattered steel helmets and bodies left to rot when the war passed through...
...crowds and accompanies Judas on his mission of betrayal. In one of the few lines with a parallel in both versions, Judas now says, "Oh what cursed gold I received, turning me into a traitor." The 19th century text goes, "Oh cursed money I received from you, the Jewish rot, the scum." Schwaighofer has also added other new elements: a loudspeaker system and stage lights for nighttime performances...