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...This one is an obvious pick. The Celtics were facing a return to Detroit down three games to two. With five seconds left, Bird stole an inbounds pass from Isiah Thomas and hit a streaking Dennis Johnson for he game-winning bucket. I couldn't dream up a better scenario. Isiah Thomas was the goat, Larry the hero. I get goose bumps just thinking of the play...
...time come when an American songwriter, seeking to capture the essence of France, pens a lyrical ode to Le Burger King or McDonald's? Will the Hemingways, the Sartres and the Picassos of the next century debate ideas while dining out on le hamburger and le Coca-Cola? The scenario is hardly farfetched. For on the street corners of Paris, and in provincial cities from Lille to Lourdes, le fast food is muscling out bistros at a dizzying rate...
...cynicism is a fraud too. By the end we're eye-high in butterflies, walking cripples and God's own rain shower. The greenest born-again Christian does not believe in climactic miracles as desperately as does a moviemaker looking for a way out of a troubled scenario. No wonder, then, that this Elmer Gantry wannabe winds up as a Field of Streams. And no miracle, either...
...interesting twist is added to the already twisted scenario by a wandering Plague of Madness (Bess Wohl). She flits across the stage, effecting Ovidian metamorphoses among the characters, and uttering cryptically: "I come to the fruits and to the fishes. I come to the flatterer and to the suffering hermit...
Barnes is frank about the brutal realities of living as a novelist in England. "It is difficult to make a living as a novelist in Britain, until one is about forty. The Donna Tartt scenario would be impossible in Britain. The ascent there is slower than it is here in America where a novelist, having achieved some measure of success changes his hair, his house, his wife, his entire life while in Britain, a successful novelist considers taking his publicist to lunch." He admires the work of Cheever and Updike but resolutely adheres to his ambitious (if brashly stated) mission...