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...Saturday nights) to the beery wassailing of the Daughters of Bilitis, a militant lesbian organization quartered in a loft near by. There are no boutiques, no sleazy head shops hustling Moroccan love beads made in Jersey City to tourists from Duluth, no taxis, no clubs. For the casual visitor, the most baffling thing about the loft district is that it does not have a "scene" at all; nothing apparently exists behind its nobly looming iron facades except art and cotton waste. But what disappoints the tourist delights the resident artist as he sits on his fire escape in the evening...
...light slice through the darkness, rebounding from concealed mirrors to form an intricate lattice that almost abolishes any sense of bodily space. Indeed, one of the general effects of the "A. and T." show is to shift the focus from art as object to art as environmental sensation. The visitor is always being encompassed -by gas lighting or lasers or, in the case of Tony Smith's piece, by several thousand cardboard tetrahedrons and octahedrons supplied by the Container Corp. of America. Taped together, they form an immense, gloomy brown cave pierced by Wagnerian shafts of dim yellow light...
...last month, a detachment of Israeli soldiers and police surrounded Kanj's spacious villa and took him into custody. Also arrested was a sergeant-major in the Syrian army, reportedly a frequent visitor to the house. Last week Israeli officials revealed that Kanj and four others, all Druse, will be tried next month on charges of collecting military information for Syria...
...usual with Pinter, the surface is unremittingly mundane. Coffee is poured, snatches of old songs are sung, memories are exchanged. Also as usual, the action is punctuated by pregnant pauses, the lines surrounded by halos of significant silence. Deeper emotions are hinted at: the lingering spell of the visitor's lesbian attachment to the wife, the husband's sense of being threatened by the woman's arrival, the wife's sublime and ultimately frightening impassivity before love...
Pinter is not out to anatomize nostalgia or even to strip it naked, but to show how people use memories as weapons. The woman visitor and the husband vie with each other to possess the wife by possessing her past. In the process they ruthlessly select and reshape "old times," casting each other in roles to suit their own purposes. Did the woman or the husband introduce the wife to the movie Odd Man Out! Did the husband once meet the woman in a pub and go to a party with her where he gazed up her skirt? The answers...