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...already early morning, and a bright full moon was suspended above the center-field flagpole against the black sky, when Carlton Fisk dug in at home to lead off the bottom of the twelfth. When Fisk stroked the ball high toward the Green Monster, the hearts of Red Sox fans from Concord, New Hampshire, to Pawtucket, RhodeIsland, skipped a beat. Was it fair or foul? Ancient Fenway was generous this time: the ball caromed off the foul pole and into fair territory for a home...
Kansas City has festooned itself with red, white and blue bunting for the convention. Practically everything in town seems to smell of fresh paint, including such bump-and-grind joints along Twelfth Street as the Pink Door (a new coat of pink, naturally) and the Can-Can Club (mauve and green). Even Ray's Playpen, the city's leading porno shop, has redecorated its windows with a donkey and an elephant, both looking sedate...
...chief virtue lies in having provided Shakespeare some practice in romantic comedy. Much Ado About Nothing, which I would like to think followed shortly after, since I consider it more successful, afforded further exercise in the genre. As a result, Shakespeare was fully equipped a year later to create Twelfth Night, which is not only his greatest achievement in this category but also the supreme romantic comedy in the English language...
Touchstone (not found in the source novel) is Shakespeare's first intentional fool, a character the playwright would vastly improve on in Twelfth Night, All's Well, and King Lear. It is a tribute to George Hearn's skill that, with rouged cheeks and polychrome doublet, he makes this satirizing role better than it really is; and he fully merits the applause his speech on duelling elicits...
...cheerless square peg in a round hole, reflects the Elizabethan era's fascination with neurotic states of mind (as in the plays of Ben Jonson), which would climax a few years later in the publication of Burton's huge Anatomy of Melancholy. Jaques is the counterpart of Malvolio in Twelfth Night, which Philip Kerr played so admirably here two years ago. Kerr is now imbuing Jaques with the same wide-stanced, pigeon-toed gait he used for Malvolio. To this he has added a wonderful pasty face and a hilarious mannerism of gargling his r's in words like 'warble...