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...neighbors, she runs away to search for her lover, who departed without leaving a precise forwarding address. This tale, of course, has had many tellings; it's hard to think of an Irish writer who hasn't tackled it. Yet in Felicia's Journey (Viking; 213 pages; $21.95), William Trevor makes his heroine's plight and flight seem entirely original...
...hands of a lesser writer, such a premise might be played simply for suspense and shock. There is plenty of both in Felicia's Journey, but Trevor grounds his effects in utterly plausible details; potential terror seems more terrible when its source is the ordinary...
After Brannon (15'9") and senior Trevor Barcelo (12'9.5") took first and third respectively in the pole vault, sophomore distance runner Ian Carswell turned in an inspirational performance in the mile, out-kicking a Northeastern runner at the end of the race by two-tenths of a second...
...clear to me by now that Trevor and the college must somehow be separated. My problem was one, which I feel compelled to define with brutal candor: how to kill him without getting into trouble." --A passage from the autobiography of Sir Kenneth Dover, president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Trevor Aston was a tutor in the college and was known for a drinking problem. Aston eventually committed in a story in the New York Times yesterday; Dover expressed puzzlement about why this sentiment was controversial. "The whole point of an autobiography is to tell the truth...
...Director Trevor Nunn and designer John Napier, the Cats team, have fashioned one coup de theatre after another, reprising Wilder's opening with the newly deceased hero (Alan Campbell as Joe Gillis) facedown in a swimming pool, and working up to a levitating mansion. This larger-than-larger-than-life approach ; doomed the gentle Aspects, but it suits the more histrionic material of Sunset. Some of the lyrics, though, have got to go. To have Joe sing that L.A. has changed a lot "since those brave gold rush pioneers/ Came in their creaky covered wagons" is ridiculous. L.A. barely existed...