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...Fermata by Nicholson Baker (Random House). The author, whose specialty is upwardly pretentious soft porn, is puffed as a writer of something like satire, with something like a point of view. Baloney, as proved by this latest aid to heavy breathing: the smarmy tale of a fellow who learns how to stop the universe momentarily and uses the trick to undress women, then masturbate...
...Waterworks by E.L. Doctorow (Random House). This Poe-esque tale of murky doings in 1871 Manhattan offers the surreptitious exhumation of a corpse / while, sure enough, fog swirls in the phosphorescent light of early dawn. What it can't supply, for all the author's huffing and puffing, is social significance. But with a ghostly white stagecoach whose passengers are supposedly deceased rich men, significance (which closes on Saturday night anyway) shouldn't be an issue...
...They threw in a couple of random questions about the death penalty," said Kaibel, adding that she suspected interviewers were interested in observing her reaction to unexpected questions...
...actors are masculine without being exaggerated. It is fascinating to see the chemistry work in sultry scenes when you are convinced it is a man seducing a woman. Director Sandra Heffley has interpreted the roles with even-handedness. There are so many light changes and random chaotic scenes that the smoothness she has given to the production deserves kudos...
...eight, random assignment is almost a certainty," Bossert said...