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...accompanying the 1992 riots. Police chief Willie Williams instituted a dusk-to-dawn curfew and warned that looters would be prosecuted and jailed. Instead, in the first few | days crime dropped 80%. Maybe people were too awed to loot anything but grapefruits from public parking lots. There was a treeful right here at the mall, and the quake has shaken them down prematurely, brilliant yellow polka dots on a gray field. A family rushes to the lot and collects as many grapefruits...
...fugitive kind"-the odd, the lonely, the emotionally violated. The sense of loss and vulnerability that one finds in his characters was imprinted on the playwright at an early age. Williams was born in his Episcopalian clergyman grandfather's rectory in Columbus, Miss. His forebears included a genealogical treeful of romantics, adventurers and notables: Poet Sidney Lanier (1842-81), some Tennessee Indian fighters, an early U.S. Senator, and, way back, a brother of St. Francis Xavier's. When Tennessee was seven, the sunlit backyards of his boyhood were exchanged for rows of St. Louis brick flats the color...
Ambition, in excess, can be dangerous. Cheech and Chong are fine as long as they stay in the barrio or the nightclub telling jokes and smoking dope. But the movie fails when it strives for epic humor. There are aliens, who appear suddenly, smoking dope by the treeful and sucking our heroes aboard. They give them "space coke," a powerful enough high to send the boys into orbit. And there are these awful dream sequences, including one depicting attempted necrophilia on the altar of some Mexican...
...bare square outlined in red on the stage defined the Garden of Eden. There, a happy apple treeful of writhing serpents advised Eve to Do It, rather as if they were pushing pot. The discovery of sex gets staged as a sort of ballet of mass copulation. (Filmgoers can see the Open Theater perform roughly the same scene in Zabriskie Point...
...GOLDEN NOTEBOOK, by Doris Lessing (567 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $5.95). In her twelfth book, British Novelist Doris Lessing copes with not just one literary chestnut but a whole treeful: the sexual odyssey of a bachelor girl, the political disillusionment of a onetime Communist, the maladjustment of the overeducated modern woman. She succeeds in creating a remarkable heroine (possibly her alter ego) who somehow manages believably to combine the qualities of Kitty Foyle, Arthur Koestler and Simone de Beauvoir. Like Mrs. Lessing, Heroine Anna Wulf is a divorced writer who explains, in four different notebooks, why she is too troubled...