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...them are. Jeffrey Harper's Perry is an overly blustery old man, and an overly vapid young one. Jill Clayton is even less believable in her role of the understanding mother and repressed woman. Alison Becker's Marina, the daughter who is sometimes a child, sometimes a sensuous torch-singer, and sometimes a cynical adolescent who rejects moral absolutes, is the best realized of the three, but even she can't quite draw the fine lines between each characterization her part requires. The rest of the cast is worse than the leads--but it would take an entire cast...
Blood and Tears. The chances of such an attack are growing. In Huambo, after lighting a freedom torch, UNITA's chief Savimbi told a crowd that "these celebrations may last a day, but our war for final victory -through blood and tears-will take much longer...
BRIGGS AND I took bets--not for money but bets nonetheless--on our neighbors, Daniel and Gay. Briggs didn't think Daniel was long for this world. I concurred: Daniel passes the day setting a torch to his brain. And Gay, Gay seems such a strong, husky woman--not pretty, but big and sweet...
...Scott Joplin: "Do not play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast..." And it seems like Doctorow's player piano has some brake on it, because Ragtime seems much longer than it is. It goes fast, but the prose is economical and touches such a torch to the imagination that when you go back to look for a ten-page scene it turns out to be a paragraph...
...Ursa's jealous husband, Mutt Thomas, who hurls the heroine down a staircase, injuring her so badly that her womb has to be removed. Twenty years pass. Ursa's second marriage fails. Her career takes her no higher than another dive across town. But love is a torch song. In the end the blues singer goes back to bad old Mutt...