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...Joel Mass Parkville, Australia
LIKE TYMPANI, the character of Sax, played by Joel Press, searches for a musical answer to the music industry's dilemma The play wright clearly sides with the saxophone player, whose solution of jazz and creative improvisation is ignored by the movie producers as they stagnate in their own deathly juices Shepard looks for artistic form of expression with the elusive quality of "presence," describing it as a realization that comes to the viewer when he encounters something that's undeniable." Stale Hollywood movies and chicken-shit plays don't have that presence improvisational music, he says sometimes does...
...treatment. Of these, 43 were children. In a particularly shocking incident in 1981, one-year-old Evie Swanson of Attica, Ind., received second-and third-degree burns when scalding tea spilled over her. Infection set in, was left untreated, and Evie died two days later. In another case, newborn Joel David Hall of Whitley County, Ind., died in February from pneumonia even though, as County Coroner Alfred Allina noted, $5 worth of antibiotics might have saved his life. A grand jury is considering an indictment against the parents. It would be the first such criminal case in Indiana...
When At the Border does not sound like a Billy Joel song, it displays authenticity and poignance. At his best, Hemenway has a sure sense of urban life and involvements, of apartments so tiny that even ideas have to enter single file; of affairs that begin and end on chance remarks; of yearnings for culture buried deep within the city's most anonymous dwellers. But these virtues are nearly undone by relentless mannerisms. Whenever Everett reaches an impasse, he conveniently has a dream, recollected in detail that Freud would admire. Attempts at plain speaking frequently result in a piling...
...novel begins in typical Ludlum fashion. Joel Converse (read haunted protagonist with a conscience), a Vietnam vet turned prominent international lawyer, is called by a friend from the past. The friend tells him of a sinister plot by retired but fanatical and influential generals to take over the world. They've got money, brains and connections everywhere. And they've been shipping guns to terrorist groups all over the world, and moreover they are planning a series of assassinations and uprisings which will soon catapult the military into power. Converse is cynical, after all he's got his cozy lawyer...