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...Martin McDonagh was once a hot playwright too, a few years back, when "The Beauty Queen of Leenane," the first of his Leenane trilogy, introduced this talented London-based playwright to America. Next came "The Lonesome West," but now that "A Skull in Connemara" has arrived (at off-Broadway's Gramercy Theater), the critics seem to have lost interest. True, McDonagh's mordant vision of rural Irish life is pretty familiar by now, and "Connemara" does not have the structural neatness or the tragic force of "Beauty Queen." But it has something that Lonergan's plays don't have...
...bearing a sword, each engaged in combat with various Argonauts. (Poor Argonauts: you can't kill a skeleton - they're already dead.) You see stuff like a shot over Jason's shoulder as he stands on a ruined temple wall, looking down on a crowd of waving swords and skull faces that are somehow snarling. Nowadays this stuff is routine in movies like last year's "The Mummy," but back in 1963 I was floored...
...style of storytelling that simply doesn't exist anymore, a style that is hard to define yet quite distinct. It is evident in all of all their productions together. What distinguishes the style? For one thing, speed. Denham meets Ann Darrow; seconds later she is on her way to Skull Island. Kong escapes in New York; within five minutes Ann is in his hand as he climbs the Empire State Building. Her love affair with Driscoll is sketched out in a few lines. There is not a wasted frame and everything advances the narrative...
...team competed without the talents of diver Enrique Roy, who had hit his head on the diving board during warm-ups Thursday night. Though the freshman suffered a skull fracture in the accident, he was immediately discharged after treatment at a local hospital and in the process of recovering...
FLAT HEADS Placing infants on their backs to sleep has dramatically reduced cases of sudden infant death syndrome, but is causing a side effect: heads that are flat in the back. The condition can lead to misalignment of the ears and jaw. Fortunately, the softness of an infant's skull, which causes the problem, also makes it easy to fix. Babies should get plenty of tummy time when they are awake...