Word: sinking
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...less benign. A broader stroke didn't diminish the closeness of his inspection. If Velazquez had ever chosen to paint water dribbling from a spout, he might have come up with the sort of brilliant fiction about unstable, passing appearances that Freud achieved in Two Japanese Wrestlers by a Sink, 1983-87. (The "Japanese wrestlers" of the title are not real sumo contenders, but fragmentary pictures of them pinned to the wall.) There are amazing feats of sheer visual dissection in this show, such as the view from the studio window, Wasteground with Houses, Paddington, 1970-72, or Two Plants...
...running man into the presence of his chief tormentors. But Roberts' running woman gets to confront only a few members of the supporting cast, all of whom -- Culp aside -- are drably written and impossible even for actors as good as Hume Cronyn, John Lithgow and John Heard to sink a fang into. And we never get to see, even in the shadows that are a Pakula specialty, Mr. Big -- who has ordered the assassination of two Supreme Court Justices...
...separated from her husband, and does not trust her neighbors. Inside, she shows us her shabby living room, the dim bedroom she shares with her son, a rudimentary bathroom and a dank kitchen equipped with a leaky sink, hot plate and ancient refrigerator. Its contents: beans, rice and a frozen three-month-old piece of chicken that she is saving for two-year-old Rolando. "The state gives you six pounds of rice a month, but we eat that in three ; days," she says. When her rations ran out the week before, she sold her grandmother's 10-year...
...only hope that when people see thequilt the message will sink in to protectthemselves," said Herschbach, a Nobel laureate inchemistry...
Korder, one of the most promising American playwrights, reaches back in style more than a half-century to the era before the dominance of kitchen-sink realism, when the American theater was expressionistic and experimental, poetically and politically inflamed. Despite a few sentimental false notes, he is painfully apt about life in the U.S. today. But his play is set timelessly in "the modern era." Marina Draghici's set reinforces this reach for the enduring: its Art Deco windows and wire fences, beer gardens and alleys evoke the urban sense of living with the decaying legacy of the past...