Word: statics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reproach of blank canvas. Lena goes shopping once a week, toys dispiritedly with the notion of leaving Clem and the airless gloom that enshrouds him. Clem reads her thoughts and reminds her: "If you left me, I'd fall down. But so would you" Hanley lightens this bleak, static scene only once-with a long flashback to World War II and the London blitz, when Clem, Lena and the other tenants trooped down the stairs to spend nights of fear in the cellar. Here, A Dream Journey takes on special intensity. The dream is a nightmare, and small, carefully...
...cargo plane dropped low over Highway 611, rolled down a landing strip of a tiny Pennsylvania airport and lumbered to a stop at runway's end. For almost an hour, while the law shivered under blankets only yards away, the plane sat motionless; the only sound was the static of radio chatter emanating from people who watched from other vantage points near by. Then three rented vans, a Mercedes sedan, a Chevrolet station wagon and a Ford van pulled up to the plane, and the unloading of burlap bales of highly prized Colombian marijuana began. Two hours later, with...
...play as static as this, the emphasis has to be on words, mood and states of being. The words are brilliantly deployed. The mood is autumnal. The states of being are growing old, needing companionship, the slithering instability of illusion and reality, the burden of the artist and the elusive tapes of memory. Yet Pinter's underlying concern seems to hover offstage, a case of the middle-age megrims which, at the age of 46, Pinter may well feel or have felt when he was writing No Man's Land. It is at that point that the first...
...Summer Work, O'Donnell tries to softly shuck away at the wadded stupidity for us. He does it with a certain inefficiency and no one's going to thank him for that static present. The work is full of problems, but an original play by a young writer (this by a sage) is supposed to be full of problems. His vision, which aspires to the peripheral and occasionally epiphanal, is sometimes just blurry, but then no one expected Ah, Wilderness! from someone not even out of the forest. O'Donnell's gift is what sticks, and it is some gift...
...Harvard is a first-rate research institution, a place for scholars," Byker said, describing the problem, "and creative functions are not particularly at home." He added that Harvard is not a "congenial place" for the arts because "the scholar's goal is to hold things static and study them, while the creator's goal is to confound the scholar...