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Downhill Racer, a sober and straight-forward story about an aggressive young skier on the international circuit, attempts to carom past the usual clichés by taking a fictionalized documentary approach. If on occasion it takes a spill or two, Downhill still comes through as a perceptive, unsentimental portrait of a young athlete on the make...
Admittedly, while The Turncoats is an entertaining play, it is entertaining in a conventional way. As directed by Paul Sprecher, with its sparse setting and straight-forward presentation, this is the stuff of which good TV drama is made. America has treated these men badly--all had been poor, suffering the resulting humiliations. Kondry, as an example, had been through a reform school, labelled "Reformed," and thrown back into society only to find he couldn't get a job. China, for them, offers material promise, but not the emotional comfort the men need. The dilemma is captured in a former...
This bizarre conversation is recorded in a new book called The Other Side (Doubleday; $5.95), which Pike wrote with the help of Diane Kennedy, the executive director of a private foundation that handles his business affairs. "An account of my experiences with psychic phenomena," the book is a straight-forward chronicle of Pike's 21-year effort to communicate with his dead son. It also contains a father's painfully honest account of the sad events that led up to James Jr.'s suicide in February...
...action of the rest of the play. This is not a fault--it is just another style of writing plays, one that is circuitous and whimsical, full of zany cynical asides for their own sake. Anouilh has a European mind and Chapman's attempt to fit it into the straight-forward Anglo-Saxon mold is disastrous...
Through this peculiar twisting of sight and time, cuts sound--dialogue and music--clear, straight-forward. But sound too serves the ambiance of Dream which Desire seeks to recreate. The six bits of dialogue don't untangle the plot or deepen the characters. After all, the vocabulary of the subconscious does not use any known alphabet, although one suspects that music is our best approximation. No, this dialogue merely suggests the too easily forgotten gap between what a person says and what he is. Nothing Anastasia could say would do credit to her presence; thankfully, she says nothing...