MY LUNCHES WITH HAROLD.(PINTER)(Brief Article)

HAROLD PINTER is telling me about the characters in his extraordinary new satire Celebration. "I don't know what you'd call their particular accent, but I do know they all enjoy words and using words. They love it, and that's it." Pause. He grins. "One also has to remember, of course--and this is all a question of balance and degree--that they're all very drunk."

Pinter and I are sharing a long, late-July lunch in New York, not far from Lincoln Center, where a critically acclaimed festival of his work is underway. Pinter has intersected with my life at ...

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