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...involved with the musical admits to having liked the movie or to having studied it during the years of revision. Prince dismisses it as "a glamorous trick." The style he sought, along with Kander, Ebb and librettist Terrence McNally, was the magic realism of Latin American fiction, in which everyday behavior lurches into the weird. If there was a screen influence, Prince says, it was Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective, a TV miniseries that hopscotched among layers of reality and expected audiences to get their bearings gradually, by osmosis. Says Prince: "The way the numbers are parsed into Kiss...
...what most makes Kiss work is what propelled the novel and film. Given the grim setting, the story rightly celebrates the liberating power of fantasy and popular culture. Yet the two men's true empowerment comes in the everyday world, through bonding to each other, through love. Escapism is what man may need. Connection is what he wants. The conflict between needs and wants is the wellspring of all literature...
Tommy is a fairy tale with heavy Freudian overtones. The narrative centers on spells and enchantments, ordeals and rescues, in a life verging on the gothic. The thematic concerns are more universal: growing up, facing down everyday demons, coming to terms with the past. In the current plot (there have been several variations over the years), the central character is a boy of four when his long-missing father returns home from a German POW camp. The father, presumed dead, finds his wife in the embrace of another man, quarrels with him and shoots him. The frantic parents instruct their...
TIME correspondents traveling around Russia last week found the voters mostly pro-Yeltsin but often unenthusiastic, weary of politics, preoccupied with everyday problems. "I'll support Yeltsin now," said Alexei Svetlichny, a member of the Nizhni Novgorod city council, "but this will be the last time." Lyudmila Yakutin, a bank inspector in the city, was more firmly for Yeltsin: "The President must have the power, not those windbags" in parliament, she said. Yes, agreed economist Yevgeni Kozlov, Yeltsin may not be the ideal choice, but he is definitely "preferable to that chaotic Congress...
...Last November, we believe the American people took a gamble," he said. "We're committed everyday to making change happen...