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...play, the denouement is total uncertainty. The audience knows less in the end than it thought it knew at the beginning. Even though these two one-acters are lesser Pinter, the playgoer is still held in the author's subtle grip. In Tea Party, a successful manufacturer of bathroom hardware is driven into a catatonic state by the interactions of his wife, her brother and his secretary. The Basement presents two men and a girl in a power struggle that leaves the meaning of the outcome to the mind of the beholder...
...walked slowly back past Liggets, past their J. Press, and past Maury's (the place where Louie dwells) to Stiles, where I discovered two girls from the University of Connecticut playing a game of bridge that was still going when I left on Wednesday morning. I found the bathroom, which had been cleared out for us. There was a huge female sex sign on the door with the words "Up Against the Wall Mother Yale" scrawled beneath it. I said goodnight to my student host (who left with his radio and alarm clock) and fell, exhausted, into...
...plugging in tidbits of humor-in-microcosm ("Brackley...worked long and hard on certain aspects of the dissection of a fetal pig"), but overall the joke is strained. In the story, Brackley carves up his girl's face, but she becomes a model. Grotesque? Yes ("Camillia emerged from the bathroom wearing a slip and having a long, thin nose, a deep cleft serving as an eyebrow, one eye resting where her cheek bone formerly was ..."). Funny? Not really...
...walls were once an austere brown, blending in well with the historic surroundings of the Harvard Yard. Now, they look more like the paintings of the so-called radical artist Jackson Pollock or the musings of some bathroom graffiti writer (see Time...
...same first name if there's no last name) in any one of the four Boston area telephone books and award the game to the team whose President's name phone number starts with the higher digit. The predicted score then is calculated on an IBM computer in our bathroom...