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...Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler but to the fiction of the '60s (including his own Little Big Man), written before black humor had been eclipsed by black studies. The convoluted and brazenly preposterous plot of Who Is Teddy Villanova? is simply Berger's excuse to practice verbal gunplay with a license to kill...
Land and power. But is that all? "You think I'm motivated by a love of real estate?" Queen Eleanor demands. All this verbal carnage must have deeper roots. Like light glinting off the edge of a steel knife, appearances in The Lion in Winter are blinding. The viciousness and deceit, the shell of anger and the hollowness of despair are masks the royal family wear to cloak the more profound hurt of rejection. If they cannot have love, Henry, Eleanor and their three squabbling sons will have hatred--not merely hatred, but complete and utter decimation of their victims...
...movement of The Lion in Winter, through increasing verbal violence, is towards the temporary stripping away of these masks, the revelation of the terrible hungers which move these men and women to destruction. Each character both resists and realizes his own identity through acting: dissimulation is the armor of internecine struggle, but after a while the masks become frozen in place, forever blocking out the vestiges of humanity underneath. Lies are stacked so thick that appearance and reality are confounded, and an anguished Queen cries out: "Scenes. I can't touch my sons except in scenes...
Sergienko said the harassment by fellow workers included a verbal threat to poison him, and closing of a refrigerator door while he was inside cleaning...
...most fightin' words in Arizona are any kind of threat to the state's crucial water supply. So verbal revolvers were drawn and brandished all over the state when word came last week of President Carter's elimination of 19 water development projects from the fiscal 1978 budget. What bothered Arizonans most was that the biggest of these canceled undertakings was the $1.6 billion Central Arizona Project, which was scheduled to bring water from the Colorado River to the parched southern portion of the state by 1985. "Without CAP," said Wes Steiner, executive director of the state...