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'Winter's Tali By Maria Baens New York City will always be the city of contrasts. It breathes with the rise and fall of elegant skyscrapers and decrepit tenements. It gloats with the great extravagances of the rich and cowers with the fears and rage of the poor. It is both beauty and decadence, sense and nonsense. It is no wonder that a brilliant writer named Mark Helprin envisions it to be the perfect city. u plnrin'? "Winter's Talp" ic a rharmincrlv > IV.|<. ... " -" " ? DV spun tale about the quest for "the perfectly just city." He contends that the city exists in New York and awaits the discovery of incredibly talented and magical characters. The story leaps into the 21st century and challenges our imagination and gulliblity. It begins as a white horse helps a thief escape an angry mob of thugs called the Short Tails. Their leader, Pearly Soames, relentlessly pursues the tale's unlikely hero, i-* _ - - ? I ~ 1, ~ reiei LAKE IS a veteran thief. His childhood is spent with an undiscovered tribe of clameaters living in the obscure Bayonne Marsh between Brooklyn and Manhattan. Like Moses, Lake is discovered floating in a wooden model of the ship City of Justice. At the age ot iz, LaKe is iorcea to leave mis Working. Continued from pai the hardships and skill it takes to wait on ta Ken, an executive played by Andrew Reilly, fortunate power he had at work and how < would be without such power. "Sometimes all the power and the status set get the feeling of boys playing at business." ONE OF the I inest performances of the ev by David Avin, who played a trucker and Trucker," about the hardships of the road an wheel Avin not only put his heart into the sonj: ded a bit of soul, making it all the more worth offensive language. Robin Roberts gave firemen a good show mance. The reason he does his job is "It sh< did on this earth. 1 left (police work) because 1 NOW YOU SEE'EM... ...NOW YOU DON'T Contact lenses & exam f< I and Bifoci flCFFR FNRS Carolina Dr. Danny A. I Corner of Taylor & Bu j" Ton] J Spaghetti Special ji Every Tuesday and Saturdi ! All Ton Can Eat Spaghetti Salad Beveragi ! Only $3*00 IP T'lifcHciv cifffr 7 n m I ga V V/ 1 J JL MA vx/a ?? ^ 1 KnoxAbblf* All day ever usc | 2 Caycc _ I M M _ " e entertains w reclusive trihe anH ventnre into the eitv. He is eventually taken into a boy's orphanage, pa where he is trained to become a master bu mechanic under an engineering wizard, the of Rev. Mootfowl. he Mootfowl's biggest dream is to ally with rei the world's supreme bridge builder, Jackson nr Mead, but his failure drives him to suicide. Mi This act embroils Lake, who is accused of murder. Lake runs away to Pearly Soames's to headquarters, buried deep in New York's to water reservoirs. Soames's plan to invade the Bayonne na Marsh drives Lake to betray the schemer. w' To l ake's eood fortune he meets the DC white horse Athansor, a super beast that can of cover three city blocks in one gait. H m THE TALE continues long after Lake di meets and falls deeply in love with Beverly Ju Penn, who is dying of an incurable disease. Their brave and honest romance happens in a swirl, and in six months, Beverly is dead. Her ba death leaves Lake vunerable and unable to M resist the terrible punishment meted out by th Soames. sa i ne wnue norse ouuives nis master ana is ui subjected to 100 years of torment, which he pe gallantly bears. ge 10 bles and people. I could feel the hate begin to well spoke of the un- Alvita Martin gave a fine portr difficult his life who once had dreams of being a "woman without a face," and her ;ms empty. You till noon." Roberta, a hooker, is another fi Picow. According to Roberta, "1 ening was given very lonely. 1 didn't look like a Pep sang "Brother what they told me. Don't sell your: d life behind the highest bidder. All I did was act ou but he also ad- women." while despite the MARGOT ROGERS plays Kate with his perfor- society is pushing her to be someth dws something 1 to do is just what she's doing, li love people and sings of this with intensity and a t Baush & Lomb -i Extended 1 Wear Soft | ^ Contact Lenses I a Lenses Exam | Follow-Up Disinfection System. ' ALL FOR 3 14900 Power Range -1.00 to -6.00 or astigmatism, farsightedness il-Higher Priced DECEMBER 21, 1984 | Vision Clinic I Burns, Optometrist : fi II Streets, Phone 256-3198 ] Pi22^i y Saturday ? nox Abbot HOURS g ; 794-5469 Mon-Sat 5 10am-10pm m mmum aw?bmmmi mm mm mmmvm ith eccentric r?..? i ..I, ? a. 11 I K<r ?V.? r dui is i^apwt utau ; vj iiiwuvnvu vj y iuv ? ssage of several decades, Lake literally c bbles out of the bay, much to the surprise 1 a ship's crew. He does not remember who < is. His strange comeback signals the < turn of Mootfowl, who now has s ^steriously joined forces with the enigmatic 1 ead. < Unknown to anyone, Mead has come back < life several times, each time in an attempt < build the ultimate bridge. HIT K\ PI A INS to a celprt oronn of iour ilists, "My purpose is to tag the world with der and wider rainbows, until the last is so :rfect and eternal that it will catch the eye the One who has abandoned us, and bring im to right all the broken symmetries and ake life once again a still and lifeless earn. . . . My purpose, in a word, is stice." The book spills over with an entertaining irrage of lovable characters. Hardesty aratta is a man of such immense decency at he gives up a rich inheritance for a silver lver. Praeger de Pinto is an educated earner who runs for mayor by promising ;rfect seasons. 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What happens to him and his horse is sad, but not surprising: The city must burn before it rises again. Helprin's book is truly enthralling. It makes a wonderful Christmas gift, propelling readers into a city they might think they know but that remains an inexplicable mystery. The author says anyone who has been to the Lake of the Coheeries seems to " have acquired the gift for language. Perhaps he has been there, for he fills this tale with an eloquence that is truly beguiling. st how difficult it is to be a housewife. Ipuman fDaviri CinlanV and Charlie, an y boy (Weldon Home), also gave fine perforce enterprise and unemployment, respectively. 'HO sees "Working" will be pleased and le same time. The play enters all aspects of life )roduce a show well worth seeing. 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