Word: surrealism
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Speaking to his lawyer through an interpreter, Cortez explains that the sheriff came to his home, interrogated him through an interpreter, arrested him, and subsequently shot his brother. Cortez, in a slow-motion, surreal sequence brilliantly played by Edward Olmos, shoots the sheriff three times. The moment of understanding, for Cortez, his lawyer, and the audience, comes when the interpreter clarifies a linguistic misunderstanding--the difference between "horse" and "mare...
...other value or contribution to the production. At Harvard, Sellars' use of imaginative economy out of necessity was clever and even provocative, but in the real world it appears cheap, lazy and negligent. Besides, we have seen most of it before in Sellars' past shows. The attempt at surreal miasma falls short of what he has done in productions such as King Lear, and too many techniques remain unexplained: on stage, for instance, the stage manager and light board at down left and down right. Why? Brechtian alienation? To indicate controlling forces like puppeteers? Sellars lets us neither know...
...denouement was jarring in its swift resolution and therefore a bit surreal. Nearly 800 days after the Watergate breakin, 289 days after the Saturday Night Massacre, 97 days after the White House transcripts were released, twelve days after the Supreme Court voted, 8 to 0, that the President must surrender 64 more tapes, five days after the House Judiciary Committee voted out articles of impeachment, Nixon's defenses finally vanished. On Monday he issued the June 23, 1972, transcript that amounted to a confession to obstruction of justice and to lying to the American people. With that his clock...
...glorious battle against the Hittites at Kadesh to the beds of the royal harem and the Queen from beyond the grave. He also prefaces the tale with a recasting of a number of stories from Egyptian mythology, a section which is by far the finest of the book. Surreal, unlabored and intriguing, it unfortunately scuds by quickly. Which leaves the rest of this endless book...
...connections between consciousness and holocaust, sex and death. But whereas The White Hotel connected these themes with a pulse all its own, Ararat, like the Armenian landscape from which it is drawn, is a much drier work. The tremendous stream of poetry in The White Hotel, the sexually surreal "Don Giovanni" portion as well as the deafening violence of the Babi Yar testimony, collaborated to overwhelm the reader. This sensory overload created a flow or wave of feeling, which after it had receded, left the reader feeling a part of the world which he had just experienced--the world...