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...PLAY opens, Dysart is an emotional void, a man whose powerful intelligence has numbed him to his painful existence. A dry, analytical shrink, his self-obsession reaches gargantuan proportions. Given to endless Dostoyevskian musings about his place in the Universe, Dysart recognizes the shallowness of his life, but refuses to deal with it--instead, tossing off witty, erudite quips about his plight. His ability to diagnose and categorize all his quirks and impulses merely intensifies his self-loathing. He realizes his compulsion to play God, to tackle the illnesses of his patients so that he can absorb their agony, thus...
...this, he must be able to crystallize our purposes, and he must not shrink from the exercise of power...
...joint financial venture is ludicrous. It would be amusing to witness the scene when such a professor is informed that, although his or her research is undoubtedly of great commercial value, it is no larger of much intellectual interest, so his or her laboratory will have to shrink to make room for more exciting things. Mr. Bok and Mr. Rosovsky may have been raised to high academic office, but they have not yet achieved sainthood...
...swallowed by a great flood, returns decades later to be recognized only by his 100-year-old wife. One of the Bellefleurs has a habit of leaving her window open so that her lover, a vampire, can fly in. Dwarfs bowl in the valleys, rivers change course, mountains shrink, and a man walks through a mirror so that, like Orpheus, he can enter the netherworld and find his own version of Eurydice...
THROUGH THE CELLOPHASE shrink-wrap window encasing his latest release, all atweed to offset a glaring urban background, Jackson Browne seems to have exchanged "the bright and fragile glow for the glitter and the rouge." Hold Out is here in part tostatethat "the poet laureate of California rock" has made that trade and is living up to his promise to "be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender," and in part to entreat Browne's long-time idol, the mythical pure-of-heart to keep holding out against the compromises Browne himself has made. Both statement and plea...