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...bulging duffle bags. I still couldn't believe it; a few days before I had been quite sure I would not be free, at this institution, at Harvard. The bruises on my ribs were the only hard reminders left, but the institutional experience I had just left was still vivid in my mind. I took a sip and began to tell him about last week...
...Marks, a little-known work performed for the first time in the '70s, is an ambitious script, touching upon love, sex, death, and betrayal. The dialogue is vivid, the images strong. The script demands much of the cast as it moves quickly between extremes...
...works were often funny -- the two battered tramps of Godot might have been written for Laurel and Hardy and were in fact played by Bert Lahr and Tom Ewell, Robin Williams and Steve Martin -- but the humor intensified the sadness. In the play's most vivid and haunting image, one character cries out about all mankind, "They give birth astride of a grave." Beckett regarded himself as a sort of historian, a chronicler of misbegotten times. "I didn't invent this buzzing confusion," he said. "It's all around us, and . . . the only chance of renewal is to open...
Lonesome Dove (CBS, 1989). Just when the epic mini-series seemed to have bitten the dust, this vivid and lyrical adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel of a Western cattle drive, led by a grizzled Robert Duvall, brought the genre rousingly back to life. Twenty-nine-and-a-half hours of War and Remembrance put it to sleep again...
...Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (1987). This vivid portrait of fear and loathing in New York City, circa now, is hilarious, unsparing and eerily premonitory, especially about Wall Street jitters and deteriorating race relations. The author is carrying on the panoramic tradition of Dickens and Thackeray but with updated social material. A better decade might have spawned a more comforting novel...