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Director Vincent Murphy occasionally falls into the trap of overemphasizing Shepard's already heavy symbolism with a plentitude of baseball, airplane and other "American" images. Like several of his contemporaries--most notably John Guare--Shepard rarely rests content with social realism as a medium for his message. The boldness of his landscape and the near-lunacy of his characters (an extreme to which we all can be driven, he suggests) demand a liberal dose of absurdism which Murphy integrates well into the stream of action. As a result, Shepard's outrageous humor barrels along to the inevitable tragedy...
...abducts and then saves from a brutal rape, Bourne-Cain learns that he is a tender, brave man as well. But Carlos is determined to destroy his reputed rival. So are Cain's former masters in the Washington intelligence establishment, who had originally set him up to trap Carlos and are now persuaded that he has turned. Bourne's deadliest enemy, however, is his former self. The only credentials he can recover from his past are those of a sadistic executioner in Viet Nam, and he is all but convinced he was that man. It takes the tendresse...
...Force" in China, between Nationalist and Communit, never occupied center stage. His failure and decline into historical obscurity capture much of the story of the early 20th century in China. Bust as Alitto has sought to tell that story from the novel perspective of failure, he slipped into a trap of his own making. By the end of his treatment, the nowforgotten figure of Liang Shuming emerges from the shadows endowed with significance he cannot claim as Alitto uses Liang to represent a great traditional alternative to Mao, and then by inference, raises Liang to greater heights of historical importance...
...third, Bauer launched a fly to short center in the seventh and Wark attempted to tag up and score run number 12. The sacrifice fly turned into a triple play when Lion received Hanewich put the tag on the sliding Wark and then gunned down to first to trap Kelley in a run-down for the third...
...path to the Knesses' door may have been beaten simply because of the Ketch-All Automatic Mouse Trap, Patent No. 2433913. But Emerson suggested an additional reason for this family's success: "Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing...