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...impulses find their perfect expression in the Mather House Drama Society production of Antonin Artaud's The Cenci. The little-known play, set in sixteenth century Italy, details the family problems of the slightly offbeat Duke of Cenci, who in the course of the play turns Oedipus on his ear by killing his sons and sleeping with his daughter...
...offer one major surprise: a 20-page introduction that amounts to Pynchon's first public gesture toward autobiography. Yet for all the apparent candor of these remarks, buyers should still beware. Pynchon criticizes the young writer he once was on a number of counts: for having a tin ear for dialogue, for tailoring plots and characters to the design of abstract concepts, for using language as a form of showing off: "I will spare everybody a detailed discussion of all the overwriting that occurs in these stories, except to mention how distressed I am at the number of tendrils...
...talk. First, according to State Department spokesman John Hughes, an international legal battle would draw energy away from the "regional negotiations" which are "the best way to resolve the conflicts in Central America." That makes some sense, but Hughes neglected to mention that the Administration has turned a deaf ear to the Contadora group, which has been pushing for negotiations all along. Nor did Hughes address the discrepancy between the alleged heartfelt desire for negotiation and the real Administration emphasis of late: squeezing a bloated military assistance budget out of Congress and clandestinely mining Nicaraguan harbors without informing key members...
...lost an ear when space funding ran into trouble recently," Tanabaum said. Since the Space Shuttle has dominated the NASA budget over the past several years, "leading to a backlog of other high quality programs...
...Home, Daddy." But Daddy cannot hear the chirping cardinals or see the sunlight on this bright spring day. A stroke has left him a vegetable, and created the conflict of a black and bizarre comedy about an American family gone wild. Don't worry," Eily coos comfortingly into the ear of her zombie-like spouse, "these things happen to everybody...