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...hand, and keep our government so weak it can't deal with the myriad problems, we face; since "the realities of power ensure that government will never be truly democratic," there is at least the possibility of continued unrest. This caution--this pessimism--is a strong undertow throughout the book...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Uses of Passion | 2/24/1982 | See Source »

Making his playwrighting debut, Kevin Wade, 27, displays a spry, spare way with words. He has a sharp New Yorky eye for character and the ironic vagaries of contemporary man-woman relationships. Key Exchange is tart, funny and tender, with an undertow of the erotic, and the cast is expert and winning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Swing Quartet | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...Faust, and a useful epigram when sending flowers to a classy girl, but only someone deep in the throes of his impotence could ever really mean it. For Frank Wedekind, sexual relations were like some sort of rarefied body-surfing: exhilaration in the midst of a mortal undertow. Wedekind believed that the eternal feminine could only draw men upward by making them think that down is up, and then sucking them further and further into...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Rarefied Body-Surfing | 1/15/1981 | See Source »

...hair down, ringlets playing about her ears, draped in lace. That old fantasy of Victorian women with all that fancy lingerie. Set against Reeves' incompetence, the set-up is obvious. Reeves practically slobbers--the American boy becomes adolescent. Not romance, just sad, love caught once again in the hormonal undertow...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Adolph's Rib | 10/9/1980 | See Source »

Tennessee Williams wrote Will Mr. Merriwether Return from Memphis? in 1969, when he was mourning the death of his friend Frank Merlo. Despite numerous freshets of humor, an undertow of grief runs through the drama. Williams put the play away for a decade. With the opening of the fine arts center bearing his name, he felt it was best to inaugurate the theater with a work no one had seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Apparitions and Cakewalkers | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

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