Word: sardonicism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A sullen, taciturn central character entails a dramatic hazard which Friel sidesteps entirely: he divides his hero in two--accompanying the "public" Gar on stage is another one, representing his inner voice, and apparent only to his counterpart and to the audience. Friel handles this gimmick with wit and versatility...
Cooder discovers his songs through friends or, as he himself puts it, "by keeping my ears open and my memory running back to the days when I was starting out." His record collection is small, running mostly to comparatively obscure ethnic labels like Arhoolie and buttressed by Harry Smith'...
Controlled Attack. Whether delivered with the sardonic light touch of Missouri's William Hungate, the biting thrusts of Ohio's John Seiberling or the measured coolness of Maryland's Paul Sarbanes, the attack on Nixon's actions was controlled, yet incisive. When such troubled Republicans as...
"Step right up . . . if you dare!" reads the blurb on the garishly illustrated cover. "See the werewolf turn into a real flesh-and-blood woman-right before your very eyes." This pitchman's approach, aimed at newsstand buyers of books on the occult, is misleading, for the product, a...
On the other hand, Jason Miller's That Championship Season--at the Colonial Theater in Boston--is certainly worth seeing. When I saw it in New York a few years back, I kept thinking about this basketball star in my high school who disappeared for awhile after finally o.d.ing midway...