Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...declared our independence. Pass it on." And the Richmond News-Leader's Jeff Mac Nelly put Carter in a Texas barroom full of jug-eared Lyndon Johnson lookalikes; the candidate points to a portrait of L.B.J. over the bar and asks, "Say, who is that nasty-lookin' snake up there? He sure is ugly...
...ignores the spoken script, however, the movement of and non-verbal sounds issuing from the actors are fascinating. Director Kerry Konrad has blocked the episodes gracefully, and the crew of bodies (for they are more symbols than individuals) performs with relish and coordination. The multi-headed snake projects a refreshing sense of comic glee while outwitting Eve. Transitions between scenes pose bemusing riddles as the limp, floored torsos of the actors ease into new being. One puzzles over the nature of their metamorphoses, wondering if they are stirring into yawns or anguished gapes; labored breathing or sensual sighs; pained squirming...
...greater responsibility than Hitler for the deaths of 6 million Jews was distinctly surprising, and while it failed to convince, it certainly contributed to the success of the play. No such element of surprise exists in I Have a Dream and Billy Dee Williams' performance has a snake oil slickness that robs it of the craggy integrity that Hal Holbrook brought to Mark Twain, or Henry Fonda to Clarence Darrow. The idea of having a character who is seemingly Coretta King (Judyann Elder), deliver lengthy asides on the ideals of King violates another internal law of drama: never explain...
...Central Square resident, has his own theory about the decline of the Square. Lane is the president of the Rothman's Tenant Unit, a tenants' rights organization organized solely for occupants of rent-controlled buildings owned by George Rothman, who Lane jokingly calls both "Mr. Central Square" and "a snake." According to Lane, Rothman "is a powerful man who can do almost anything" and has, Lane says, impeded the drive for tenants' rights in his buildings through his influence peddling...
...maimings-athletic, psychological and sexual-occur without letup. Their culmination is the madness and chaos of the rattlesnake hunt itself, with the implication that the ancient, once powerful symbol of the snake has been so trivialized it no longer has the capacity to heal. As in past novels, Crews gets carried away with his own wildly fertile imagination and verbal gifts. His new book is full of brilliant descriptions and characters attempting to kick and gouge their way through some back door to salvation. The problem is that there is too little distinction between the truly grotesque and the gratuitously...