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Harry, the former high school football coach who had made a string of B pictures not quite bad enough to attract a cult following, got his break with a TV tearjerker about a dying athlete and the mini-series The Blue and the Gray. Linda attributes her success in network television, one of the last remaining outposts of prefeminist thinking, "to the Bic pen and nothing else." She wrote 35 straight episodes of Designing Women, an indoor record in Hollywood. But after 150 episodes, the top-rated show about four intelligent women had won only one Emmy -- for hairdressing...
Regardless of locale, most lawyer novels are easterns, in which the court system is a semicorrupt mess but the heroic judge/prosecutor/defense attorney finds the loophole that achieves justice. This one is a horseless, string-'em- up western whose message is that black hats are felonizing homesteaders and courts are run by sociobabbling liberals. Come back, Shane...
Cohen is not one of those artists he characterizes in the title track as "lousy little poets/ Coming round/ Trying to sound like Charlie Manson." He knows how to be vulnerable as well as play at it. His love songs twist the heart around like fingers knotting a string. The gloomy ironies of political caution, like Democracy, are applied with a sense of urgency but salved by some surefooted wit ("I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean:/ I love the country but I can't stand the scene") that neatly sidesteps sermonizing...
...York Times columnist William Safire began a string of mindbogglingly bad predictions for 1992 in late 1989, when he wrote that Americans really do like royalty and had tossed out their "natural" resistance to stuffy pretension...
...Lucas (Prelude to a Kiss) and composer Gerald Busby fuse the two in ORPHEUS IN LOVE, an off- Broadway retelling of the Orpheus legend -- mingling hints of Oedipus -- in which the characters are music teachers or pupils and hell is interwoven with high school. The sound, too, (by a string quartet, piano and two bassoons) - hovers between melodic-traditional and staccato-modern. Kirsten Sanderson's witty staging deftly evokes dreams -- their fleeting lyricism, transposed logic, sexual ambiguity and poignant blend of chagrin and nostalgia...