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These nine plays spanning seven hours -- and two centuries -- aspire to nothing less than a history of America, mythic in scale yet humbly rooted in the evolving fate of the same few hundred acres of Kentucky. Playwright Robert Schenkkan proves a spectacularly vivid revisionist, underscoring the violence, exploitation, multiracial antagonism and unchecked injustice of our past. Produced at Seattle's Intiman Theater and Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, this was the first Pulitzer Prize drama not seen in New York City and is thus a triumph for all regional theater...
...scenes have been polished till they shine like brass belt buckles at a regimental parade. More important, metaphorically the few good men of that drill team have attained the military ideal -- perfect order, perfect discipline. They are, for their brief moment, an impossible dream made manifest. And a vivid contrast to the rest of the action...
Rudenstine, who earlier said that he had gaineda "slightly vivid sense of confronting the costsof higher education" by sending three children toprivate colleges, called on parents to save fortheir children's education
...third book in the Rawlins series, good-time girls, corrupt politicians, trigger-happy psychopaths and other crime-novel fixtures are all in place. But Walter Mosley's writing hums with the particular rhythms and blues of the black American experience. What makes these books special is their vivid portrayal of life in the side streets where Philip Marlowe seldom ventured...
Consequently, although Basquiat's images look quite vivid and sharp when one first sees them, and though from time to time he could produce an intriguing passage of spiky marks or a brisk clash of blaring color, the work quickly settles into the visual monotony of arid overstylization. Its relentless fortissimo is wearisome. (An exception is some of the works on paper, which attain a delicacy of placement and interval absent from the paintings...