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MICHAEL KELLY'S DEFT, IMPRESSIONISTIC reporting in MARTYRS' DAY (Random House; $23) of a journey around the Gulf War's edges is a useful reminder of what went on. Just before the shooting started, his travelogue of Baghdad ("unusually ugly lampposts") has the flip quality of a travel piece. In Amman, Jordan, violently pro-Saddam, the streets "hummed with a mean joy. At last somebody was killing Jews." In Tel Aviv, he discovers women who deck their gas-mask kits in velvet. After the 100-hour land war, incinerated Iraqi corpses burn off the vapors of his irony; in liberated...
Carolyn Rendell's direction teases the humor out of the play, sparing neither a gasp nor a gawk to illustrate the miserable cultural inadequacy of the American elite. She also knows how to drill her cast: the delivery is snappy, maintaining pace in what might otherwise degenerate into a random sequence of incidents. Rendell marshalls the complicated restaurant scenes brilliantly. Above all, she has an excellent sense of comic timing, and milks the text for all (and more than) it's worth...
...fact, it was pretty--dare I say it--random...
...field--in his world, he would be a rare fossil find. He can make science accessible, important and compelling all at once, while other writers struggle with any one of these tasks. Like the quirky and unpredictable sequence of evolution which Gould defends, his wacky and often random metaphors serve him well in the creation (evolution might state it better) of a unified set of essays...
...Brown (2-12, 7-19)-- the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the Ancient Eight. A random group of MAC players could take this team. But that's about what was expected, anyway...