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...infused, at the start, with a real sense of fright: the noonday demon, as it were, lurking in the woodpile. Surls' huge wraiths posture and writhe on point with a sort of evilly humorous grace; they summon up nursery horrors, tree demons, swamp critters. They have some of the charged, crude intensity of New Mexican santos. Surls is a good craftsman who does not make a parade of technique. He lacks laconic effects - nothing too beautiful: storytelling rather than elocution. His preferred tools are the chain saw, the ax and the blowtorch, with which he "paints" areas of sooty...
Translating this appeal into delegate strength is something else again. Hart will have to fight through a confusing swamp of delegate-selection rules that vary sharply from state to state...
...show's final big bonus is Don Meuse's extraordinarily varied and ornate scenery; the nine sets include the CocaBanana Nightclub, the Queen's ice palace (used for calisthenics), and the Little Swamp of Horrors, which sports a killer bush. Clever choreography around the curtain spares the audience the tiresome delays of scene changing--a blessing, since, when a show's whole stock in trade lies in being collegiate, even a little high-schoolishness can turn it sour...
...rocket-propelled grenades burst on the sandbags around the position without causing significant damage. But at about 10 p.m., a single 120-mm mortar round crashed through the roof, blowing up the bunker with the ten Marines inside. Rescuers arrived to find a ghastly scene, the ruined bunker a swamp of blood. Only three of the ten men had survived the blast, and all were wounded, one mortally. They lay among the bodies of their comrades, surrounded by spilling sandbags and spent cartridge cases...
...everyone brought, but otherwise stood somewhat aside from the gamboling with their plastic cups full of Chablis. The two colleges have been coed for well over a decade, but the woman grads are not yet old enough for three of them standing together on dry ground to produce a swamp of nostalgia. This was a day for the old boys, gray-haired men called Red and Curly, to stand knee-deep in love for one another...