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...police official's college teacher wife, a series of comic set pieces starring the official's bullying superior, and a whole slew of secrets unwisely unearthed. The daring mingling of genres works rather better than the cluttered plot. Most memorable are the scenes of the central character, a wilder version of the bright boy who is the schoolteacher's beneficiary in The Corn Is Green. Even in this messy story, those passages could make believers of many who have given up too soon on the mystery as literature...
Written by William Inge (Bus Stop), the play attempts to recreate life in a small Kansas town in the 1950s. But to a modern audience, the script seems little more than an inept recapitulation of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, without any of the characteristics that have made that play endure...
Predock says he talks about UFOs and "magic lines of power" mainly "to disorient myself and my colleagues so new thoughts can enter into the soup." He is open to a wider, wilder array of ideas than any of his successful peers. Predock's great accomplishment lies not just in deeply absorbing eclectic influences ranging from Italian hill towns to science-fiction movies, but also in rarely letting one idea overwhelm the rest. And his sensible, good old Americanism, counterbalances his spacier side. On old Route 66 at Albuquerque's southwest edge is the Beach, a Navajo-blanket-pattern...
...speculated that the vandalism might be connected to a large party held at Mather that evening. "With so many people and drinking going on, people become wilder than usual." The private party extended through 17 student suites in the house...
Americans' emblematic visions of their country incline toward the arcadian -- cabins in a peaceable countryside, a small town with no entertainment wilder than a Sousa band in the park. But in this century, as the U.S. became an urban nation, New York City's Times Square emerged as a different sort of American apotheosis. Times Square exemplified a certain idea of the city carried to its frenetic extreme: a few blocks dense with too many lights and too much action, a happy chaos of honky-tonk night life (the Florodora girls, Legs Diamond's Hotsy Totsy Club), theatrical bliss (Barrymore...