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...Mailer had in mind a book that the eye might train on, even on a shelf with Melville, Prost, and Dostoyevsky. No, more than that, the book would have to be big on imagination. It would have to be sprung in its entirety out of Mailer's white-maned skull, not a work which might have alleged against it the taint of journalism (notwithstanding all the protests against dividing fiction and nonfiction which have emanated from one of the country's most inventive, entertaining and best journalists) Ancient Evenings was to be at once Mailer's monument of unaging intellect...
Kaplan's walk cost her a fractured skull, four crushed vertebrae, and other internal injuries, as well as $13,000 in hospital and doctor bills...
First he calls the Spartacist League "Stalinist," although he knows full well that they are Trotskyists, and that they call for a political revolution in the USSR to replace the bureaucracy them. Leon Trotsky, he will remember, died in 1940 from a blow to the skull with an ice-pick, delivered by an agent of the GPU. Do Trotskyist organizations like the Spartacist League receive support from Moscow, from...
...DIMLY LIT corner, a courtier clutches a skull and caresses its sockets. Alas, poor Yorick? No--this time the hero is Vindice (vengeance) and skull is that of his love, Gloriana, poisoned by the wicked Duke. Cyril Tourner's The Revenger's Tragedy, while reminiscent of Hamlet, is of a distinct genre: it is not so much a tragedy as a horror play in which vengeance, severing the ties of love and kinship, sweeps its victims toward their own destruction...
...come close to achieving that timelessness and universality which make a character endure. Ben Evett, who plays the role of Vindice with puckish bravado, and Peter Hansen, the Duke's bastard son of conniving mien, carry the play through its weaker moments. When Vindice again draws forth Gloriana's skull--this time as a weapon to poison the Duke, who unsuspecting that she is only a "shell of death" will try to steal a kiss from her in a dark corridor--he handles the scene with a deft blend of madness and humor that make the murder believable...