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...Mamet's Dark Pony, sandwiched around Reunion, seems, on the other hand, antithetical to the minimalist premise. Nearly identical versions of a single scene, one before and one after Reunion, comprise the play, although the first version is listed, enigmatically, as a "Prologue." Alone, Dark Pony works as a stark portrait of two people without really succeeding, as Reunion does...
...minimalist risk, of course, is chopping away the meat with the fat. Syrie Maugham, the great minimalist interior designer, discarded her earliest works, stark unpainted rooms devoid of furniture and even windows, for what later became her classic minimalist style, rooms done completely in white in which enormous windows played a crucial role. Likewise, Mamet progresses in Reunion to achieve the depth that got lost in Dark Pony, and expands his message to the maximum...
...conventional techniques of characterization. Real people, with blood running through their veins, would detract from Pinter's concern with the purely intellectual. Jerry, Emma and Robert are as colorless as the gray business suits, black dresses and Burburry raincoats that fill their wardrobes. The stage is equally stark, lest a trinket or painting leak evidence of a character's personality--the stage is even more bare than it was on Broadway: a simple table and chairs replace Jerry's cushy leather study, and the bartender in scene one has vanished altogether. Pinter takes great pains to insure we will...
...that sudden growth has not marred the temperate beauty of the city. To be sure, the office buildings housing lawyers and lobbyists on K Street look like toasters with windows, but on the residential streets of the city there are probably more attractive homes (Federal, Victorian, stark modern) than anywhere else in the country. This makes for some astonishingly boring discussions of real estate deals but also for some very pleasant living. So do the parks, like Montrose and Rock Creek. So do the ball fields and tennis courts (available). The city's most famous structures have always held...
While his wife Rosalynn and key aides nodded their heads as he answered questions, the president spent the balance of his time outlining what he called the "sharp and stark differences" that separate his positions from Reagan...