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Katherine is almost too blatant to be believably manipulative. At a business meeting, Katherine introduces herself as Isobel's "inheritance." When Isobel throws a fit because Katherine is planning to sell the family house, Katherine tearfully pours out a sob story about being penniless, and then in an about-face angrily snaps, "Be fair, Isobel...
...ultimate (indeed!) confirmation of their grimmest fears. Death, after all, is the only reality that never lets you down. Yet that too can be an escape, a projection of our fantasies upon the dark unknown. Keats, who admitted to being "half in love with easeful Death," died at 25, penniless and spitting blood...
...says something about Stephen Sondheim that being in love for the first time in his 64 years -- as he recently acknowledged he is -- has evoked the darkest, most depressing show of his career. Passion, the only memorable musical of the Broadway season, portrays the romantic obsession of a penniless, ugly and dying woman for a kind, handsome and accomplished soldier. By the end, she is dead, he has been driven insane, the man who introduced ; them has been gravely wounded, and a doctor who fostered the relationship has been burdened with guilt that will last a lifetime. The audience...
DIED. HELEN WOLFF, 88; publisher; in Hanover, New Hampshire. Arriving penniless as refugees in New York in 1941, Wolff and her husband Kurt founded Pantheon Books within a year, aided by their Continental credits (Kurt was the first publisher of Franz Kafka) and Helen's command of several languages. At Pantheon and later under the Harcourt Brace Jovanovich imprint "A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book," she introduced Americans to Boris Pasternak, Gunter Grass and Umberto...
What is wrong with Carousel is Carousel. The book is a mess. After a leisurely opening extravaganza, it brings together two discontented and penniless youths who quit their jobs and upend their lives to satisfy a moment of sexual curiosity. Within minutes the pair are rocketed into abiding love. Then the hyperkinetic narrative is suspended for about 20 minutes to accommodate a folksy dance number and a comic song in which the only joke is that a fisherman smells like fish. The action alternates between aimless divertissement and melodrama for an overblown three hours. At the end, the central character...