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Louis Dearborn L'Amour may be the most famous obscure author in America. He hardly ever makes the bestseller lists, nor is he yet a darling of the literati, like Mystery Writer John D. MacDonald. But today over 100 million copies of his frontier and western novels are in print. Moreover, he and his publishers have done it without full-page ads or talk-show hype. The latest of his 77 volumes, Lonely on the Mountain, is the 16th episode of the long and winding Sackett saga, tracing the fortunes of a frontier family from the 17th century...
Politics and protest are in Foot's genes. His father, Isaac Foot, was a Liberal Member of Ramsay MacDonald's government, and his three brothers have had distinguished public service careers. His wife of 31 years, Jill Craigie, is a well-known writer and documentary film producer. Though he has always relished the role of iconoclast and socialist firebrand, when he became deputy to the cautious Callaghan in the last Labor government, Foot damped down his fires. It is now widely believed that he may once again backtrack on some of his most radical positions, including unilateral nuclear...
...like nature sprites, inhuman and unsettling; his "rude mechanicals" quarrel with earnestness and acrobatic precision in their stage business. The curtain rises at the Wilbur to reveal a Renaissance tapestry of equestrian combat, fair enough warning of the production's themes, and when Theseus (Harry Murphy) and Hippolyta (Karen MacDonald) have it out in a mock combat during the overture, the audience gets the message...
...women, Cherry Jones's Rosalind clearly deserves her position as Shakespeare's ringmaster. The most commanding of the performers, she plays woman or man with equal ardor, courtly fixture or cottager with equal ease. Karen MacDonald's Celia matches Jones movement for movement with a perfectly synchronized body and a beautifully tuned voice. But the most ingratiating of the performances is Gerry Bamman's Jaques, a tall forest roamer in a grass toga, unfazed by even the most outrageous of Belgrader's devices, with a pouting, resonant voice that undoubtedly reminded more than one member of the audience of Tony...
Editors must keep this faith even though few will appreciate their efforts. As Critic Dwight Macdonald wrote nearly 20 years ago: "If nine-tenths of the citizens of the United States, including a recent President, were to use inviduous, the one-tenth who clung to invidious would still be right, and they would be doing a favor to the majority if they continued to maintain the point." -ByR.Z. Sheppard. Reported by John M. Scott and Janice C Simpson/New York