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...audience with his endless conjury of felicitous syllables. He is the theater's grand gabby old man, the shaman, the incantator, who goes back to Aeschylus and forward to O'Neill and Osborne, Stoppard and Shepard. Put a spotlight on him, and the eloquence swells, the spell continues. He simply will not shut...
Hall of Fame Classic, December 27, at Birmingham, Ala.: Spell this game d-u-d. Who cares? Arkansas (6-5) and Tulane (7-4) have both proved unimpressive. The Razorbacks...
...Alan's aliveness that Dysart cannot bear, the fact that his worship of Equus gives meaning to his existence: "That boy has known a passion more ferocious than I have felt at any moment of my life...and I'm envious." Caught under Alan's spell, Dysart--who dreams of the Delphic oracle and eagles bearing prophecies--can think of nothing more monstrous than "taking away someone's worship." But, as a shrink, he is the self-proclaimed high priest of the God Normal. He must exorcise the boy's vital spirits, the phantasms of "insanity" that bring Alan...
...group drug experiment in which her parents participated) and her father (the mother has been murdered), both on the run from pursuing government thugs intent on annihilating them. The first 250 pages are engrossing and entertaining, but then the fantasy that King has concocted falls flat, the spell he's cast is broken, and the reader is left with a runaway novel that leads to a stale, purposeless conclusion. King's recent books (The Dead Zone, The Stand) have not been up to the level of Carrie, the tight, well-paced drama that gave him his first major success...
...Western Europe can no longer gather in all the world's wealth, leaving whole continents ravaged. Abdnor, Dan Quayle, Steve Symms--these men subscribe to the Reagan "placed here between two great oceans" theory of the American mission. To the scientists who predict that pollution, and overproduction, and depletion spell disaster, the Republicans shout Pollution is From Trees. There are New Sources. We Can Get America Moving Again. Just step on the clutch and put it in reverse...