Word: sleepwalker
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What is left is an abundant supply of jokes together with jarring poignancies. The two interrupt each other like hot and cold running water. Some super performances are to be savored. Julie Harris has played Little Girl Lost so often that she can sleepwalk her way through the part, but she is too much of a trouper not to do it beautifully. Nancy Marchand is as flinty as the Maine coast. As a visiting fellow teacher, Rae Allen is a delightful vulgarian, and lard would not melt in her mouth. Top honors go to Estelle Parsons, caustically jovial, slapping...
Satry is a somnambule. one of those fantasy girls who sleepwalk into the hero's bed on an acquaintance of about half an hour. As he watches her puttering blissfully about the kitchen, and serving wine with meals, and unobtrusively bolstering his male ego by asking him what time it is, Vangel comes to realize that Europeans Know How To Live. When he is later so masculine as to give Satry two or three solid slaps in the face, he suddenly realizes that he has something to live...
...Spirochete has destroyed or degraded each life with which he has come in contact. Spiro may be a human parasite, but at least he is true to his instinctual self. The Irvines and Helen Bristows are spiritual nomads, Author King implies, with no selves to be true to. They sleepwalk through reality, wrapped in romantic visions and do-good illusions, until (paraphrasing Eliot) human voices wake them and they drown...
...scores his first-novel romance with a bustling big-city sound track. Subway doors snap shut like guillotines, shreds of dirty newspapers swirl along the avenues instead of autumn leaves, a joyless Village party gets high on marijuana and low on clothes; and all the time the two lovers sleepwalk their poignant way between the steel-and-glass monuments and the human ruins...