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...ancient, or older. Golding's method, as in The Inheritors, is simply to ask himself what it could have been like in those dim times and then to imagine an answer. He conjures baking sun, heat, a river, flat, dry beds of papyrus, stillness; then buildings, a mud town, a tiny, isolated river kingdom at the moment when the old god-king dies and the succession must be established. Mating in the royal line is incestuous, and while there is a suit able princess, her brother is a sickly and unpromising ten-year...
...vivid, the material trite. Little Murders is a child's garden of negations. It plays on TV family stereotypes until their insular evils are revealed--and set in the context of a stupidly monied America. It's a rare, original, American comedy, but director Alan Arkin slings more mud with Jules Feiffer's screenplay than he can make stick with his staging. Gordon Willis's camera helps quite a bit. Beatty in the first film and Gould in the second give their best performances yet on film...
...earlier works. With powerful brevity, Borges limns a decadent nation where language-and all that it implies of hope and beauty -is the execrated enemy. Disdaining vowels, Borges' updated Yahoos grunt only in consonants. When they want to open what passes for a conversation, they fling mud. Their king is protected from mortal corruption by being blinded and castrated...
...Stone (Mr. Black-White) and Steve Winwood (Mr. White-Black) both released long awaited albums, and both were very good. Anxiously anticipated albums were also released by James Taylor (Mud Slide Slim) and Joni Mitchell (Blue...
...through environmental theater, Monick worked for two months with the event's directors, Kevin O'Connor, a Roman Catholic, and Gordon Stewart, a Presbyterian. One nice touch they devised to dramatize the rebirth theme: during the baptism, members of the cast circulated among the worshipers washing the mud from their hands. Monick also devoted five Sunday services to explanations that would prepare his congregation for the event...