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Eric Martin's set is, as usual, original, simple, serviceable, brilliant. And Mirsky used is quite intelligently. The stage is a small circle with a revolving couch, a trap door, and many ramps leading offstage; and Mirsky has solved the problem of exposing his actors to both audiences by moving them around and around whenever he could...
Downstairsville, there is a two-story, chandeliered, oak-paneled living room with teakwood floors and a trap door through which you can drop twelve feet into a kidney-shaped indoor pool. "That," I'll tell my visitors, "is where we throw the old, discarded girls." At the end of the pool is a waterfall, and you can swim through it twosies into a dark, warm grotto which has wide ledges at the sides, softened with plastic-cover-ed cushions...
...tale of the masterful, but neurotic bootlegger manipulating a medicore, but good sheriff into a tragic trap. The Noblest Roman is somewhat ineffectual. But, as satire on the South, on county politics and preachings, and on the art of bootlegging, David Halberstam's first novel is pretty damned witty...
...Trap Door. The charming Krogers, said the Crown, were the bankers and communicators for the ring. Rummaging through the Krogers' home, British police found $8,000 in cash and travelers' checks. A high-speed radio transmitter was found beneath a trap door in the kitchen, and in a secret cigarette-lighter compartment, a radio transmission schedule. Following the transmission schedule, counter-intelligence agents swiftly locked on to a station that directional locators placed in the vicinity of Moscow. Moscow's transmissions came in faithfully at the times and on the frequencies listed in the Krogers' schedules...
Head in the Way. To trap the ever-changing image of war, the three illustrated papers dispatched a mere handful of men-some 30 in all from beginning to end, and never more than a dozen at any one time. The rewards were low-about $5 to $25 per sketch for piecework-and the risks were high. One chill night, Harper's Artist Theodore R. Davis, sharing his threadbare blanket with a Union soldier, waked at dawn to find his bedfellow dead beside him. "It was plain.'' wrote Davis afterward, ''that but for the intervention...