Word: drama
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After stints at Yale drama school and Stanford, McGuane realized he had reached a "point of no return" in his literary vocation. "I was in my late 20s," he says. "I had prepared myself for no other career. What was I to do? Start selling lighting fixtures and hope to rise in the corporation?" Instead, he wrote The Sporting Club, an apocalyptic satire of an exclusive Michigan hunt club, which was published in 1969 to rave reviews. Two years later came The Bushwacked Piano, a biting social broadside about a scheme to sell towers stocked with insect-eating bats...
...drama of two men in the blustery Mediterranean closing the book on 40 years of animosity is one of the surprises that history deals up in this strange world. "The changes are so monumental. So different. But it did not seem overwhelming when we sat down. Two reasonable people sat down with their staffs. Even the contentious matters were brought up without rancor. When I first met him in Moscow when I was Vice President and brought up human rights, he grew very heated. This time he talked very rationally, not rancorously...
...There will have to be something very different. The pace of change, the scale of change, and the drama of the change are all such that we have to stop thinking in conventional terms. Perhaps there will be a Soviet confederation of some sort, much looser than what there is now, with some new form of associated statehood for the Baltic republics. Georgia and some of the other more nationally defined republics could enjoy a much more independent status within the Soviet confederation. If they don't have that, then they will have to have some form of Great Russian...
...final member of the cast is Sax (Henry Dormitzer). Sax provides the well-integrated music of the drama; although he doesn't contribute to the dialogue of the play, his musical performance is vital to the production. It was Shepard's intent to create an indefinite college effect with both characterization and music, and Kupferberg's direction and Dormizer's music achieve this goal admirably...
Such a play is Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1886 drama, The Cenci, a work which proves the point that romantic poetry looks a lot better on the page than on the stage...