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Author brings incest topic home
BOOK REVIEW
By Ed Klopfenslein
f<y fhff Oregon (Wy f r**e>fak1
Ever «nter a mall and wonder
who's the walking wounded,
haunted by memories of incest?
Ever think those people aren't
as close ns next door?
Think that and you would be
wrong.
University graduate and now
Springfield resident Heather
Harphntn is just such a person
and writes about her trek toward
inner pence in / Went Tn The
Animal Fair: .4 lourney Thmtigh
Madness Ta Meaning (Pinon
Press, May, 1994).
The work is a flip-flop of jour
nal entries that reflect
Harpham's journey from the hol
low life of a dysfunctional incest
survivor to a life with some
sense of peace.
With references to Got! and
rnfie. most of / IVtoif To The Am
null hair isn't about either, but
instead is about one woman —
one human being — coming to
terms with her past, and with
that life itself
This is a memorable work of
journal writing, excellent for its
short, punchy paragraphs that
take little Polaroid* of the
author's exploration The real
ization that she has a problem,
dredging up the rape; anil for
giving.
The writing brings home
much of the work by flowing
poetically within each para
graph and by offsetting the jum
bled placement of the
paragraphs found in most jour
nal writing with mini-stories
that flow like modern haiku
Best, Harpham's poetic style
brings home her message of for
giveness. She doesn't boat the
reader over lh>> hood with her
rapo memories; sh« uses her
poolu void' to show how deep
nor rapist's deposit of patn infil
trated her life
Hut. sometimes the author
goes ape on narrative poetry,
making confusing reading for
some It also makes one wonder
if she doesn't have farther to go
in her quest for peace
I.ost for an ending, the big
question before closing the book
and going to lied was. "Did she
find her peace?" She doesn't
seem to have an answer
Looking to the bigger ques
tion. though, this is a good liook
for adults who are incest sur
vivors t>ec.auso it shows one per
son's chosen path and how the
hunt for answers affected her
adult life
The fact that this was done by
a University grad makes the
work even closer to home
‘Wolf is just a sheep in wolf’s clothing
By Greg Hamilton
For rhe Oregon Deity (mernkt
1 love |u<:k Nicholson.
I don't care that some suv he's a washed-up, mid
dle-aged has-lieen with a sagging gut and liver spots
He does his job and he does it well.
That’s why it bugs me to see him turn out a
dynamic performance and then have it hashed by
a film that suffers from what can lies! lx; desi rihed
as impotency.
Enter lVolf, directed by Mike Nichols and the lat
est addition to the circle of Hollywood odes to the
classic monster tale, this time adapted for the t‘i<M)s
Nicholson plays Will Randall, a txiok editor at an
East Coast publishing house who finds Ins physi
cal abilities enhanced after a rather close run-in
with an unfriendly wolf. At first, he really doesn't
pick up on this new gift, with the exception of some
rather unsightly hair growth and a new, intense
craving for meat products.
This initial period of discovery is where Nichol
son shines. After Randall begins to catch on to this
newfound strength, he finds some rather animal
istic and aggressive means to deal with competi
tion at work.
WOLF
★ ★
STARRING Jac* Nicholson RATING: R
and Mrchclte Wertler RUNNING TIME 120 mm
DIRECTOR; Mi« Nchols PLAYING AT: Movies 1?
(Tn top of all Ihn animalistic bravado in th«> office.
Randall fosters a relationship with his (miss rebel
lious daughter Laura, player! by Michelle Pfeiffer,
who takes a shine to "the old guy," as she < alls him.
and finds a kindred spirit in Randall’s ever-hairi
er arms
Randall's feral instincts do not come without a
price, though It's the price of power, and the dilem
ma from which Nicholson hangs a humorous and
roguish performance Unfortunately, the theme of
the inner man-beast struggle is squelched by efforts
to turn it into a cheap-jack horror film with modus re
special effects It's disappointing and frustrating
when you consider the movie it could have been.
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