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This is the way the year began--with what, by any standard, qualifies as a loud theatrical bang. No sooner had most of us unpacked our boxes than Erik Amblad was on stage in "The Hollowmen," an adaptation of the famous poem by T.S. Eliot...
...with a stage draped in tinfoil, a strobe light and an actor in a metallic suit. Briefly, what happens is this: as the poem is heard on the sound track--mixed and looped, sped up and slowed down, intermingled with classical music, rock, and a pounding techno beat--Erik Amblad performs a highly elaborate pantomime, in which his only prop is a large red chair...
...young man writes a virtuoso novel, and the reader, hearing this news, imagines what it might be: a blare of grand attitudes and romantic bosh perhaps, or a bravura display of cynicism not quite fully baked or fully earned. But the mood of Erik Fosnes Hansen's remarkable Psalm at Journey's End (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 371 pages; $24), published in its original Norwegian six years ago, when the author was 25, is dreamlike, elegiac stillness, a condition not usually thought of as youthful...
...smile was fending off a barrage of questions as to whether her dramatically improved performances were drug enhanced. Smith flatly denied it and credited her wins to new training techniques, a low-fat diet and more rest. But the fact that Smith's husband and coach, Dutch discus champion Erik de Bruin, is under a four-year ban for doping, fueled speculation, even though Smith was tested at eight competitions this year, and swimming officials have also collected urine samples four times in unannounced visits. "It is very easy to point an accusing finger when you are not doing well...
...that Pat's husband Ed (Erik Amblad) can't seem to muster up genuinely powerful emotions. In a play running at normal speed, he's still stuck moving in 33 RPM. The only real life he shows in all of the first act appears when Pat gives him an overzealous shoulder massage, making him bounce up and down on the couch during his monotonous monologue. What a pity that the life he possesses in this scene is drawn entirely from another person's action...