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For a time he seemed more stable. His father, a loan collector in an Atlanta bank, gave him money for a round-the-world trip. In June 1979, the stocky (5 ft. 11 in., 195 Ibs.) Chapman married Gloria Abe, the attractive Japanese American who planned the itinerary. Though Chapman...
But what is the closing tune, "The Overload," doing on the album? Even Byrne calls it an anomaly. It is reminiscent of a funeral march but the critics have been comparing it to the latest posthumously popularized group Joy Division. It sounds to me like Eno's obsession, Ambient Music...
They worked hard and precipitately. Nicholas Nickleby opened to guarded enthusiasm that turned, over the course of an initial ten-week run, into a national obsession. Nicholas Nickleby helped to right those vexing money matters, became a rallying point for yet another of those renaissances in British theater that occur...
AS THE PLAY opens, Dysart is an emotional void, a man whose powerful intelligence has numbed him to his painful existence. A dry, analytical shrink, his self-obsession reaches gargantuan proportions. Given to endless Dostoyevskian musings about his place in the Universe, Dysart recognizes the shallowness of his life, but...
The play trips down a path paved with jokes on foreign phrases, sight gags with panties, and tongue-twisting lists of pub names. Stoppard's ear for the curious-sounding proper noun is responsible for many of Dirty Linen's laughs; but between this dependence on the odd British name...