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...where you belong," a palmist cryptically tells the hero of David Mamet's latest play. Edmond Burke (Colin Stinton) is not a classic conservative who spells his first name differently but a conventional 34-year-old who lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side in middle-class complacency. He takes the palmist literally. Informing his wife that she is no longer spiritually or sexually attractive to him, he abruptly leaves home. Thus begins an odyssey into the sordid inferno of an urban sub-world...
...problem in Edmond is that his intuitional reach exceeds his dramatic grasp. He senses that the times are out of joint, that modern urban man is doing a slow dance on a killing ground, but he seems half in love with that gaudy, bawdy death. In the title role, Colin Stinton is stubbornly and sensitively convincing in his search for the decontaminated self-a journey to salvation through the precincts of Sodom and Gomorrah...
...business of hype." Scarcely a day goes by without an ad, a story or a skillfully planted gossip item about an overnight success, an out-of-town comeback, an agent's abject gratitude that some hot client continues to employ him. Says cable talk-show host Colin Dangaard: "A publicist in this town would rather have a story about a client in the Hollywood Reporter than in the Wall Street Journal. A lot of people may not get around to reading the Journal. " By contrast, as Agent Evarts Ziegler points out, "Everybody reads the trades -and early...
...same day that the news about Lombard-Wall broke, Colin, Hochstin Co., a New York City brokerage firm, announced that Justin Colin, one of its partners, had filed a personal bankruptcy petition. He had lost heavily on investments in two small West Coast airlines that went out of business last year. The troubles of Colin and Lombard were new evidence of the current fragility of financial markets...
...reason for the failure, perhaps, was that police duties were split. The local district covered the palace, while a royal squad guarded the Queen. The two details were combined into one last week under Deputy Assistant Commissioner Colin Smith, 41, who scarcely two months ago came to London from a provincial force. Last week, too, the commander of the local district resigned, his highest-ranking subordinate at the palace was transferred, and four other officers face possible disciplinary action. In a way, Fagan could take credit for one thing: his visit presumably tightened security before someone with more sinister motives...