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...represents some kind of an ideal. For LaZebnik's Lear, who is both actor and director in a play about himself, it is Cordelia who is lost, while for Thomas, the young male lead, it is the elusive Adeline, who takes the place of Dante's Beatrice. Since Tome is also the name of the fool in King Lear, it's not too surprising, given the workings of LaZebnik's mind, that characters from the two classics should discover their lives and identities intricately entangled in the course of a brilliant, firework-like denouement...
SENATE BILL NUMBER ONE, like a wolf in sheep's clothing, lies innocently right now in the friendly lair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. It seems harmless enough--a much needed bill to "codify, revise and reform" the federal criminal laws. But this 735-page tome, once sprung on the American public, will do more to keep the people ignorant about what the government is doing than to seriously coordinate the confusing list of federal statutes...
...warehouse is panelled with books, books, and more books! There are forty feet of Welch's famous tome The Politician, which accused Dwight Eisenhower of being a "conscious and willing agent of the Communist Conspiracy." There are fifty feet of the distilled essence of conspiracy, None Dare Call It Conspiracy! Another whole side of the warehouse is devoted to How We Lost...-- books on Poland, China, Korea, Vietnam, East Europe, etc. Then there are stacks of The Blue Book, Welch's original exposition of the Birch code, which describes democracy as "merely a deceptive phrase, a weapon of demagoguery...
Mineral King has also taken on a symbolic meaning, since it embraces many issues tied to the expanding American search for energy and society's attempts to pillage shrinking wilderness reserves. Not surprisingly, the Mineral King draft EIS--a voluminous tome whose cover pictures the resort's ersatz-Swiss-chalet-style village--tends to ignore larger issues...
Even the most rabid fans need a little fresh writing to help them get through a star's off-season tome. Sportswriters today generally rely on the excitement of pennant or cup fever to sell their books. The rare sports classic is the book that can be read when the players involved have finished their stretch drives and surrendered the headlines to the athletic endeavors of others...